Hi, Monks ...

I've tried my brains out to understand tying variables (read perltie, all the tie manpages, the tie tutorial here; I even opened my Conway book, all to no avail.)

What I want to do is to tie the scalar variable "$tie" to the output of localtime(), so that each time I use $tie, I get the current time.

It's silly to even include my pathetic attempt, but ...
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Tie::Scalar;
use vars qw($now);
tie ($now, localtime());
print "$now\n"; sleep 5; print "$now\n";

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... which results in ...
Can't locate object method "TIESCALAR" via package "Mon Sep 24 21:29:5
+0 2001" at tienow.pl line 7.

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I'm sure I'd know how to do this if I understood the first thing about OO programming, but I find that to be another opaque subject. Perhaps I'll ask about that later, but could someone explain how to do what I want to do, or at least push me further in the right direction, please?

Thanks ... --blueflashlight

In reply to Need simple example tying scalar to localtime() by blueflashlight

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