Perl objects

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Re: Perl objects by Anonymous Monk on Jun 14, 2011 at 06:12 UTC
don;t know how to implement it. Note Then how did you manage to create a class? Show us what you got. Alternatively, use Moose and read the Modern Perl Released as Free ePub	[reply]
Re^2: Perl objects by pr09 (Novice) on Jun 14, 2011 at 06:24 UTC
The project i should have an employee class. The attributes of these class are name,dob etc.. Four methods are to be used like display,update,get and set. The main method should ask the number of employees. Next the user has to enter all the attributes and all this will be saved in a file. Now a method say display method has to called alongwith the argument which you want to retrive,say name. i created a class as shown below: package Employee; sub new { my $self = { _Name => undef; _DOB => undef; }; bless $self,'Employee'; return $self; } sub DisplayDetails { } package main; print "Enter the number of Employees"; $employee_count=<STDIN>; My doubt it how to access this display method using the object.	[reply]
Re^3: Perl objects by Anonymous Monk on Jun 14, 2011 at 07:12 UTC
My doubt it how to access this display method using the object. First you create an object calling class method new `my $foo = Employee->new;` [download] Then you call the object method display, on the object $foo `$foo->display;` [download] I suggest you review carefully the book/tutorial which taught you about package ... because calling methods is basic syntax. Its covered in various places, including the free book Modern Perl a description of how experienced and effective Perl 5 programmers work....You can learn this too. Also, FYI, you have a question, not a doubt, see "Question" vs "Doubt" The other Anonymous monk	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Perl objects by pr09 (Novice) on Jun 14, 2011 at 07:24 UTC
Re: Perl objects by 7stud (Deacon) on Jun 14, 2011 at 07:58 UTC
You might also want to consider reading perltoot(which you can google).	[reply]
Re^2: Perl objects by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 14, 2011 at 08:05 UTC
In fact, `perltoot` comes with Perl. `perldoc perltoot` [download] will show that documentation. Also, http://perldoc.perl.org has that file available via perltoot, short-linkable from this site via `[doc://perltoot]`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Perl objects by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Jun 14, 2011 at 17:15 UTC
Also consider Moose, unless this is out of scope for the project or assignment. This will dramatically reduce the complexity of tasks such as this one.
Re^2: Perl objects by pr09 (Novice) on Jun 15, 2011 at 05:50 UTC
Moose and perltoot are new concepts,surely i will read about them. Thanks.	[reply]