> Though I'm making progress (thanks guys) I'm still having a problem
> with dereferencing the struct elements. I've re-read the section on
> References in Programming Perl and I thought what I was doing was
> correct, but I can't print out the values correctly. Here's a
> simplified version of what I'm trying to to:
>
> # dereference the hash method.
> print "stock: %{$store->stock}"; ### <---FAILS! Prints out the
> # ref again with a % in front...
1) hashes do not interpolate in ""
2) method calls do not interpolate in ""
>
> # What about the scaler reference?
> # prints the reference.
> print "owner: $store->owner";
method calls do not interpolate in quotes
print "Owner: ", $store->owner;
> # prints ref
> # you want print "owner: ", $store->owner";
> my $owner = $store->owner; ## This works.
> print "owner: $owner";
>
> # but how do you print the store owner directly? The following fails!
> print "owner:, ${$store->owner}";
I'll say it again: Method calls do not interpolate inside quotes.
There *IS* a way (perldoc -q 'How do I expand function calls in a string' )
that is ugly as sin.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ed
>
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