Hi Kenneth, On Tuesday 13 Apr 2010 12:35:57 CHAN, KENNETH 1 [AG/7721] wrote: > Thanks Uri and Shlomi. The dumper works but still not getting the proper > results, please see comment in text. Thanks.
Thanks for not top-posting. :-) > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Uri Guttman [mailto:u...@stemsystems.com] > > > > first off, learn to bottom post and edit the quoted emails. i deleted > > tons of stuff below this. > > [CHAN] Thanks for the advice. Will do it. > > > your problem is that you appended a newline to the reference thereby > > stringifying it. dumper printed that string as you asked. when you use > > dumper you only pass it the reference you want and nothing else. > > [CHAN] after taken out the newline. It shows an empty array as: > $VAR1 = []; > Does it mean it's returning an empty array? > Then what isn't the Class::Inspector->methods() not working properly? > Any idea how do I get it to work? > I can try to investigate, but that will take some time. I have no previous experience with Class::Inspector - at least not a direct one. > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Shlomi Fish [mailto:shlo...@iglu.org.il] > > > > Always add "use strict;" and "use warnings;" (and correct all reported > > problems). Not that it should matter here. > > [CHAN] Thanks for the advice. Will do it. > > > 1. I guess ->methods returns a single array reference instead of a > > flattened > > > list even in scalar context. So you should do: > > > > {{{ > > my $methods = Class::Inspector->methods( 'Bio::Graphics', 'full', > > 'public'); > > > foreach my $method (@$methods) { > > > > # Do something with $method. > > > > } > > }}} > > [CHAN] What is the meaning for putting the code in the 3 curly brackets? These are delimiters. Maybe I should try using [code]...[/code] or something. Hmmm.... > I tried this one by putting "print $_;" in the foreach loop and the > output shows: It is generally a bad idea to use $_ as a loop iterator, because it is so easily modified and manipulated. Just use a lexical variable such as "$method" in my case. I iterate over $method - not over $_. > __END__ > I guess it's the problem in the returned array. How can I get the > Class::Inspector->methods() to work? > I'll do my best to investigate it. Regards, Shlomi Fish > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------ This e-mail message may contain privileged > and/or confidential information, and is intended to be received only by > persons entitled to receive such information. If you have received this > e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately. Please delete it > and all attachments from any servers, hard drives or any other media. > Other use of this e-mail by you is strictly prohibited. > > > All e-mails and attachments sent and received are subject to monitoring, > reading and archival by Monsanto, including its subsidiaries. The > recipient of this e-mail is solely responsible for checking for the > presence of "Viruses" or other "Malware". Monsanto, along with its > subsidiaries, accepts no liability for any damage caused by any such code > transmitted by or accompanying this e-mail or any attachment. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What Makes Software Apps High Quality - http://shlom.in/sw-quality Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
