{"id":5711,"date":"2024-03-14T03:15:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T03:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-do-object-oriented-programming-in-perl\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T18:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:41:54","slug":"how-to-do-object-oriented-programming-in-perl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-do-object-oriented-programming-in-perl\/","title":{"rendered":"Perl OOP: Object-Oriented Programming Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Perl, object-oriented programming involves defining a class first, then creating objects and calling methods of the class. Here is a simple example:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u5b9a\u4e49\u4e00\u4e2a\u7c7b<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">package<\/span> Person;\r\n<span class=\"hljs-function\"><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">sub<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title\">new<\/span> <\/span>{\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">my<\/span> $class = <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">shift<\/span>;\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">my<\/span> $self = {\r\n        <span class=\"hljs-string\">name =&gt;<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">shift<\/span>,\r\n        <span class=\"hljs-string\">age =&gt;<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">shift<\/span>,\r\n    };\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">bless<\/span> $self, $class;\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">return<\/span> $self;\r\n}\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-function\"><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">sub<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title\">get_name<\/span> <\/span>{\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">my<\/span> $self = <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">shift<\/span>;\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">return<\/span> $self-&gt;{name};\r\n}\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-function\"><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">sub<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title\">get_age<\/span> <\/span>{\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">my<\/span> $self = <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">shift<\/span>;\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">return<\/span> $self-&gt;{age};\r\n}\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-number\">1<\/span>;\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u521b\u5efa\u5bf9\u8c61\u5e76\u8c03\u7528\u65b9\u6cd5<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">my<\/span> $person = Person-&gt;new(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"Alice\"<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-number\">25<\/span>);\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">print<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"Name: \"<\/span> . $person-&gt;get_name() . <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"\\n\"<\/span>;\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">print<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"Age: \"<\/span> . $person-&gt;get_age() . <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"\\n\"<\/span>;\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the example above, a class named Person is first defined, which includes a constructor method called new and two instance methods called get_name and get_age. 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