I think the nicest way to get a sub with a string is to use a dispatch table, a hash of coderefs.

I don't recognise what menu system you're using, so can't give any more specific advice.

After Compline,
Zaxo

I also recommend a hash of coderefs. To give you a specific example, and some working code demonstrating two different approaches, here's a little quiz I fiddled with a few years ago. Problem: Given input of a string and a number, you want to call an appropriate handler function (based on the value of the string), passing it the number as an argument.

# Hash of coderef solution (recommended).
use strict;
use warnings;
my %op_table = ( edit  => sub {   my $z = shift;
                                  print "in EditHandler, z=$z\n";
                                  return 1;
                              },
                 chmod => sub {   my $z = shift;
                                  print "in ChmodHandler, z=$z\n";
                                  return 2;
                              }
               );
sub invoker {
   my ($name, $z) = @_;
   exists($op_table{$name}) or return -1;
   $op_table{$name}->($z);
}
# Example calls.
invoker("edit", 42);
invoker("chmod", 99);
invoker("fred", 7);      # returns -1
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Perl symbol table solution.

use strict;
use warnings;
sub Handler::edit {
   my $z = shift;
   print "in EditHandler, z=$z\n";
   return 1;
}
sub Handler::chmod {
   my $z = shift;
   print "in ChmodHandler, z=$z\n";
   return 2;
}
sub invoker {
   my $handler = shift;
   exists($Handler::{$handler}) or return -1;
   &{$Handler::{$handler}};
}
# Example calls.
invoker("edit", 42);
invoker("chmod", 99);
invoker("fred", 7);      # returns -1
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