http://www.perlmonks.org?node_id=358546

#!/usr/bin/perl my $obj = new MyObject ('GB-LAQ-05-00017'); print $obj."\n"; package MyObject; sub new { my($pkg, $string) = @_; bless { _string => $string, }, $pkg; } sub SCALAR { $_[0]->{_string}; }

Filename conversion - make acronym

#!/usr/bin/perl # Converts a long file name with spaces or underscores # to an abbreviated format. use strict; my $filename = 'This is my word document there are many like it but th +is one is mine.doc'; my @array = split /[ \._]/, $filename; my $ext = pop @array; print map m/^([\w])/, @array; print '.' . $ext . "\n";
:wq