Re^2: AUTOLOAD - the good, the bad, and the ugly

A nit.

my $method = $method_and_structure[@method_and_structure-1];
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is better written (and slightly faster) as

my $method = $method_and_structure[-1];
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But, most examples I've seen tend to do the one of the following:

my $method = (split '::', $AUTOLOAD)[-1];

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my ($method) = $AUTOLOAD =~ /([^:]+)$/;

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(my $method = $AUTOLOAD) =~ s/.*:://;
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In that last, you want to use .* as opposed to .*? because you want it to be as greedy as possible.

Update: Fixed slice to scalar access.

Update: Added parentheses in second-to-last example.

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Re^3: AUTOLOAD - the good, the bad, and the ugly by ihb (Deacon) on May 05, 2005 at 00:29 UTC
I tend to do `my ($method) = $AUTOLOAD =~ /.::(.)/s;` which I find nice and clean. `ihb` See perltoc if you don't know which perldoc to read!	[reply] [d/l]