Hi everyone,

I wrote a module House.pm and I save it in a directory /home/hamidjon/Perl/Learning/code_examples/myModules

The script of a House.pm is:

package House; # Class
sub new { # Class method called a constructor
  my $class = shift;
  my $ref={ "Owner"=>undef, # Attributes of the object
            "Price"=>undef, # Values will be assigned later
  };
bless($ref, $class);
              # $ref now reference an object in this class
return $ref;  # A reference to the object is returned
}
1;

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To use this module I'm adding this line to my program: use lib ("/home/hamidjon/Perl/Learning/code_examples/myModules");

Am I doing right by adding this line? Are there any other (most correct) ways to use? What does mean the code line: unshift(@INC, "directory"), first I used unshift(@INC, ""); method but it didn't work, then I used 'use lib ("directory");' and it worked, is it true? Thank you...

Code of program that uses the House.pm module:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use lib ("/home/hamidjon/Perl/Learning/code_examples/myModules");
use House;
my $houseref = House->new();

print "\$houseref in main belongs to class ", ref($houseref), "\n";

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