Try Workrequest::Utilities::sample_range_fix() instead. Using ->class_method() notation passes the class as the first argument.<div><br></div><div>Two more things:</div><div><ol><li>I suspect that $c++ line does nothing.</li>

<li>sprintf or printf will handle that 0-prefixing with less code.</li></ol><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/1/12 Tom Keller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kellert@ohsu.edu">kellert@ohsu.edu</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Greetings,<div>Writing a module Workrequest::Utilities with subroutine</div><div><div>##### code snippet ######</div><div>sub sample_range_fix {</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span>my $params_ref = shift;</div>

<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">  </span>my $samples;</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">     </span>my $filename = $params_ref->{filename};</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">       </span>my $start = $params_ref->{start};</div>

<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">  </span>my $count = $params_ref->{count};</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">     </span>my $prefix = $params_ref->{prefix};</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">   </span>my $last = $start + $count -1;</div>

<div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>for my $c ($start .. $last -1) { </div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                </span>if ( $c < 10 ) {</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                      </span>my $number = "0$c";</div>

<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                  </span>$samples .= "${prefix}_$number, ";</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">             </span>} else {</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                 </span>my $number = "$c";</div>

<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                  </span>$samples .= "${prefix}_$number, ";</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">             </span>}</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                </span>$c++;</div><div>

<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">     </span>}</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span># add last sample w/o a comma</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">    </span>if ( $count < 10 ) {</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">          </span>$samples .= "${prefix}_0$last";</div>

<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">  </span>} else {<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">         </span>$samples .= "${prefix}_$last";</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>}</div>

<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">  </span>return $samples<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><div>}</div><div>##### end code snippet ######</div><div><br></div><div>I get the strict ref error when I call this method with:</div>

<div>##### code snippet ######</div><div><div>my %params = (</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">  </span>filename<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span>=> $filename,</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>start<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                   </span>=> $start,</div>

<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">  </span>count<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">           </span>=> $count,</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">    </span>prefix<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">          </span>=> $prefix</div>

<div>);</div><div>my $samples = Workrequest::Utilities->sample_range_fix( %params );</div></div><div>##### end code snippet ######</div><div><br></div><div>I can't see what's wrong with it. Can you?</div><div>
<br>
</div><div>thanks for your help,</div></div><div>
<span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;border-collapse:separate;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Optima;word-spacing:0px">Tom<br>

<a href="http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/research/research-cores/dna-analysis/" target="_blank">MMI DNA Services Core Facility</a><br><a href="tel:503-494-2442" value="+15034942442" target="_blank">503-494-2442</a><br>kellert at <a href="http://ohsu.edu" target="_blank">ohsu.edu</a><br>

Office: 6588 RJH (CROET/BasicScience)<br><br><a href="http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/research/research-cores/index.cfm" target="_blank">OHSU Shared Resources</a><br><br><br><br><br><br></span>
</div>
<br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
Pdx-pm-list mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Pdx-pm-list@pm.org">Pdx-pm-list@pm.org</a><br>
<a href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pdx-pm-list" target="_blank">http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pdx-pm-list</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div>