in reply to Getting Confused with the '->' operator
Others have offered explanations and if you'd like another example (perhaps something a little less textbook-like) I just grepped this from my scratch directory. It's hideous, yes, but demonstrates the point at hand.
Newlines added for "clarity":
Of course, there's no error checking in there (I didn't want it at the time). That'd make it look a bit more like:print LWP::UserAgent->new()-> request( HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://geeksalad.org') )->content;
I'm assuming, of course, that HTTP::Request isn't going to fail (unlikely anyway). And this doesn't allow me the opportunity to do anything useful with the UserAgent object other than what I could have accomplished with LWP::Simple. I have no idea why this was there, other than to serve as an example of some kind. Whether this was to demonstrate something good or bad, I can no longer remember. :)if (($_=LWP::UserAgent->new()-> request( HTTP::Request->new(GET=>'http://geeksalad.org') ))->is_success) { print $_->content; }
This mess is more commonly written as something like (edited from the LWP manpage):
So what my code snippet above did was exactly what's being done below, except that I don't put the request object into a variable ($req), and I don't put the user agent object ($ua) in one either. The only thing I stash away is the result ($res/$_) object because I have to call two methods (content, is_success) on it. Neither of these returns the original object, so I can't chain these together with ->'s.# Create a user agent object use LWP::UserAgent; $ua = new LWP::UserAgent; my $req = new HTTP::Request POST => 'http://geeksalad.org'; my $res = $ua->request($req); if ($res->is_success) { print $res->content; } else { print "Bad luck this time\n"; }
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