In your original code, $f was a variable holding the whole code of the module as a string. So of course
$f->new
would produce syntax errors! You need to replace $f with whatever name you gave the module, i.e., the name you used in the package declaration.
Here is an example to show how this works:
(1) File “Widget.pm”:
#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;
package Widget;
sub new
{
my ($class, $name) = @_;
my %self = (name => $name);
bless \%self, $class;
}
sub say_hello
{
my ($self) = @_;
print "$self->{name} says \"Hello!\"\n";
}
1;
(2) The main .pl script (in the same directory as Widget.pm):
#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;
open(my $fh, '<', 'Widget.pm');
my $f = do { local $/; <$fh> };
close $fh;
eval $f;
warn $@ if $@;
my $widget = Widget->new('Gromit');
$widget->say_hello();
When I run this, I get:
Gromit says "Hello!"
as expected.
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