Module Directory Structures 1

[andyros]

Hey all,

Right I've searched far and wide for this but can only find information on how to make a perl module, not how to organise them.

I've made a few perl modules, for example

Joe.pm
Andy.pm
Sam.pm

and i want to place them into a sub folder called PEOPLE.

So i assume i must rename the 'package' statement at the top of the modules to PEOPLE::Joe etc then move all the .pm's into that directory.

Now when i create a test script to call a print function from any one of these modules it says:

Can't locate object method "new" via package "Joe" (perhaps you forgot to load "Joe"?) at Test.pl line 4.

yet at the top of my Test.pl code i have included the statement:

use PEOPLE::Joe;

any ideas on how this is done? I'm going to have alot more files and i like things neat and tidy in folders !

thanks
andy

 

[tchatzi]

can you show us the new method that you create inside Joe.pm



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he poses the right questions.''
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[andyros]

sub new 
{
	my ($class) = @_;
	my $self = {};
	bless $self;
	return $self;
}

 

[andyros]

Everything works fine when the modules are in the same directory and i simply have

use Joe;

 

[tchatzi]

why don't you try to put the PEOPLE dir into a directory that is inside @INC ?


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he poses the right questions.''
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[andyros]

how is that done? i tried use lib(c:\perlfiles\PEOPLE\); but it didnt work :?

 

[tchatzi]

@INC contains paths for the perl modules.
if you do on the command line

perl -e 'print "$_\n" foreach(@INC)'

you will see some directories where the perl modules are.
Copy the PEOPLE dir inside one of those.

or at the begining of your script use

push(@INC,'the/path/to/the/folder/which/contains/the/dir/PEOPLE')

and then 'use myModule'


``The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions.''
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[andyros]

ahh yeah, works fine now! thanks alot

 

[tchatzi]

any time!


``The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions.''
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