Morning Monks,

Still kind of new to Perl and was hoping for some Perl wisdom from anyone out there... have just recently started trying to develop my own Package(have checked CPAN and couldnt find an existing one) that handles the Logical Volume Manager LVM for AIX.

My question is more on proper coding style more than anything but given a command... 

lsvg -l rootvg

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this returns the following data 
LV NAME             TYPE       LPs   PPs   PVs  LV STATE      MOUNT
hd5                 boot       1     2     2    closed/syncd  N/A
hd6                 paging     64    128   2    open/syncd    N/A
pdumplv             sysdump    64    64    1    open/syncd    N/A
hd8                 jfslog     1     2     2    open/syncd    N/A
hd4                 jfs        5     10    2    open/syncd    /
hd2                 jfs        122   244   2    open/syncd    /usr
hd9var              jfs        33    66    2    open/syncd    /var
hd3                 jfs        49    98    2    open/syncd    /tmp
hd1                 jfs        47    94    2    open/syncd    /home

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Given this data, what would be the best way to return the data from the package to a script that calls it?
Should the pacakage return a nested hash or six individual hashes which corresponds to each of the headings except for "LV NAME", which would be used as the index. Or perhaps use something like Class::Struct ??? Though with Class::Struct not being a standard package i was a little weary of using it

TIA

In reply to How best to return data from a package ??? by lcanty

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