On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:31:01PM +0800, Spark Shen wrote: > Hi: > > I am a fresh bird on perl. :-) Could gurus help me to understand this > statement. > > *HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);* > > How does perl parse the struct *GET => $url* here. > > I found out GET is a method defined in HTTP::Request::Common. If *GET => > $url* is a method invocation here, what is the operator => stands for? > What's it context? list or scalar? > > IIRC, => is a hash operator used in hash array. But it apparently is not > here.
HTTP::Request is a module. This is something that has been written to do generally complex procedures and saves other programmers from rewriting the same code So HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url) means that 1. use the HTTP::Request module 2. use it to GET the URL assigned to $url You don't have to do any more coding A little more detail is at http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.805/lib/HTTP/Request.pm Owen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
