Being relatively new to OO perl, I need help understanding how to validate data upon creation in a perl object. My object consists of a variety of attributes which have to be matched up to a standard list of values. For example: Company A provides a data file containing a list of colors Red, Maroon, and Brick. For my XML, I only support Red and wish to convert all instances of Maroon and Brick to Red. I assume the proper place to do this is upon the creaton of the object and can use a configuration file to define Maroon and Brick as the color Red, such that if I pass: 
my $test -> Car->new { provider => "Provider A",
                       color => "Maroon" };

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then the module will use the Provider A configuration file and create the instance as {provider=>"ProviderA",color=>"Red"};

Am I going about this the right way, and if so, how do I define in my new method to run a validate_color upon creation of the object?

Thanks for the help....

Edit by tye

In reply to Validation of Data in Module by rgatliff

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