Re^2: Symbolic Reference in Method Call

[kennethk]

You are quite close to a clean (IMHO) solution here. Rather than using symbolic references, I would just use a hash to store the writer references:

use diagnostics;
use File::Slurp;
use RTF::Writer;

my @destinations = ('IAs','Defs','Term','Payoffs','RWs','Boilerplate2'
+);
my $targetfolder = "contract/new2";

opendir(DIR, "$targetfolder");
my @files = readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);

my $count = 0;

foreach $file (@files) {
         if ($file =~ /rtf/i) {
              my %writer;
              for my $dest (@destinations) {
                   $writer{$dest} = RTF::Writer->new_to_file("contract
+/$dest/$file");
              }
              my $contract = read_file("$targetfolder/$file");
              my @paragraphs = split('cf', $contract);
              foreach $clause (@paragraphs) {
                  my @lines = split("\n", "$clause");
                  if ($lines[0] =~ /^\d$/){
                      my $colour = $lines[0];
                      my $goal = $writer{$destinations[$colour]};     
+ #NO-LONGER-PROBLEMATIC CODE
                      my $destinationfolder = ("contract/$destinations
+[$colour]"); # Also changed this one
                      foreach $line (@lines) {
                               if ($line =~ /^\s*\w/ && $line !~ /^\d$
+/){
                                           $goal->paragraph (
                                                    "$line",
                                           );
                               }
                      }
                  }

              }
         }
$count++;
}

Untested, though it passes strict. I think there are some simplifications you could make in the logic in your @lines loop as well.

Remember that objects are just a subclass of scalars; and consider perusing perlreftut and perllol.

[EclecticScion]

I had some trouble for a while with a bug relating to my first program, but I can now confirm that the above code works perfectly. Thanks very much!