For those who might be interested, I had to create the formats "on the
fly" like so:
$format="format CUSTOMER_REPORT=
";
and then
eval $format
later in my subroutine. Of course, all $ signs had to be protected too
but it seems to work and I'm in a hurry..
Simply "require"ing the file with the formats in the derived class
didn't work.
Donncha.
Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
>> Just got my head around Perl OO yesterday (after a lengthy time away
> from trying to figure it out, those O'Reilly books are great!) and I'm
> trying to print to a FORMAT from a derived function.
> I tried the obvious,
> $self->{CUSTOMER_REPORT} = CUSTOMER_REPORT;
> in the base constructor which didn't work (didn't think it would
> though.) but I'd like to know if anyone knows a better way of using
> formats other than including the file in each function, or making them
> global variables. (Is that possible with formats even?)
>
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