On Jun 21, Nick Transier said: >I have written some OO perl and I have a problem that I just realized, when >you set an object = to another object, they become irreversibly linked and >all operations on one or the other causes changes in both. If I am trying to >simply initialize the object and not link them, how do I get around this >problem? You want to make a clone of the object. use Storable 'dclone'; # you might need to get this from CPAN $new = dclone $orig; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ I am Marillion, the wielder of Ringril, known as Hesinaur, the Winter-Sun. Are you a Monk? http://www.perlmonks.com/ http://forums.perlguru.com/ Perl Programmer at RiskMetrics Group, Inc. http://www.riskmetrics.com/ Acacia Fraternity, Rensselaer Chapter. Brother #734 ** Manning Publications, Co, is publishing my Perl Regex book **
