perl -MData::Dumper -Mlib=. -MHelper::Lgr -E' \ $l=Helper::Lgr->getInstance();$l->log(0,"Log1"); \ $z=Helper::Lgr->getInstance();$l->set('Log', 4); \ print Dumper $l; \ print Dumper $z' Get instance called from main Not yet instantiated Sun Dec 29 18:51:08 2019 Log1 Get instance called from main Not yet instantiated $VAR1 = bless( { 'LogName' => 'CommandLine.log', '_continuation' => 0, 'Screen' => 0, 'LogDir' => '/home/random/log', 'fh' => \*Helper::Lgr::__ANONIO__, 'Log' => 4 }, 'Helper::Lgr' ); $VAR1 = bless( { 'LogDir' => '/home/random/log', 'Screen' => 0, 'LogName' => 'CommandLine.log', '_continuation' => 0, 'Log' => 0, 'fh' => \*Helper::Lgr::__ANONIO__ }, 'Helper::Lgr' ); #### #!/usr/bin/perl # # Lgr.pm # # Controls both logging to a file and to the screen # you can set a verbosity for each independently # package Helper::Lgr; use strict; use warnings; use v5.10.0; use File::Basename; use File::Path qw(make_path); use FindBin; use Data::Dumper; my $script = basename( $0, '.pl', '.pm' ); # Logger is a classic singleton pattern. We only want one instance in our code my $instance = undef; sub getInstance { say "Get instance called from ".( caller ); if ($instance) { # Already instantiated, check if we need to change any settings say "Already instantiated"; return $instance; } else { say "Not yet instantiated"; } my $class = shift; my $instance = shift; # settings to use $instance = {} unless $instance; die "$instance is not a hash ref\n" unless ref $instance eq 'HASH'; bless $instance, $class; # we bless early so we can call methods on ourself ... And much more ...