use strict; use warnings; my %params = ( 'default-0' => ['lakja', 'haljl', 'alka'], 'default-1' => 'abc', 'default-2' => [1, 54, 83, 23], 'default-5' => '2019-06-26 00:00:10', 'default-10' => 'Nothing to see here', ); for my $key (sort keys %params) { next if $key !~ /^default-(\d+)/; my $sub = main->can("HandleParam$1"); if ($sub) { $sub->($params{$key}); } else { warn "Don't know how to handle 'default-$1'"; } } ...