Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module P213. This topic is presented on public course
Perl for Larger Projects
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.
Related technical and longer articles
Is Perl truly an OO language?Object Orientation in Perl - First Steps
Examples from our training material
3cl | Object Orientation - 2 classes and polymorphism |
antest | Introduction to Objects |
at2 | Hello Perl Object World |
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 |
big | How Object Inheritance is done in Perl |
blessing | Blessing and resultant polymorphism |
book.pm | A simple class with a constructor and 2 access methods |
ce.pm | Object interface to call events |
commute.pm | commute.pm - used in factory demo |
higloo | houses and igloos - an OO example |
housing.pm | Definition of house, castle and igloo classes |
journey | Call to factory class. See ramble.pm and commute.pm |
massage.pl | Template object and test program |
medium | OO with inheritance demonstrated |
message.htp | Sample template for use in other demos |
message.pl | None-OO example of template filling |
need1 | calling subs via bare words |
need2 | Solving the bare word |
nsp | variables in packages (autovivification!) |
oco | Using the house, castle and igloo classes |
peeps.pm | Definition of two classes and polymorphism |
ramble.pm | A class that includes a factory method |
roar | Sample program to use room.pm |
room.pm | A simple class which uses a blessed hash |
scemail | quick check of email address format |
small | True OO example |
spammer | Using global matching to extract all matches |
thing.pm | Generic class for use during exercises |
tiny | Towards OO in Perl |
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 |
wheretogo | Example that uses commute.pm and ramble.pm |
Background information
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Topics covered in this module
Resume -- using a class.
Background to instance variables.
Variables, addresses of variables, contents of variables.
A first class.
Structure of the class file.
The new method.
Other methods in the class.
Storing information using complex structures.
Writing applications that are independent of the class internals.
Using a scalar to store information within a class.
Using a list to store information within a class.
Using a hash to store information within a class.
Further capabilities of a hash.
The ability to provide generic set and get methods.
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