In Perl, you can define a class of objects in a module. All the standard Object Oriented facilities are available, and we start with constructors, destructors, instances and accessor methods.
This topic is presented on public course
Perl for Larger Projects
Examples from our training material
| bd1.pm | A simple class, using a scalar to store object information |
| bd2.pm | A simple class, using a list to store information about each object |
| bd3.pm | A simple class, storing each object in a hash |
| book.pm | A simple class with a constructor and 2 access methods |
| ce.pm | Object interface to call events |
| peeps.pm | Definition of two classes and polymorphism |
| scemail | quick check of email address format |
| spammer | Using global matching to extract all matches |
| thing.pm | Generic class for use during exercises |
| ub2 | A test program to use the "book" class |
| ub3 | Another test program to use the book class |
| ubany.pl | Test program for ub1 ub2 and ub3 classes |
| usebook | Sample application, constructs and uses book objects |
Specialist books
Background information
Some modules are
available for download as a sample of our material or under an
Open Training Notes License for free download from
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Topics covered in this module
Resume - using a class.
Background to instance variables - pointers and references.
new - the constructor.
blessing.
Other methods in a class.
Using more complex structures to store data in a class.
Extended capabilities by using hashes.
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