You still haven't actually said what you are trying to do, but reading between the lines it seems you want to be able to run code to handle an entry in a hash passed to your code from some front end code dealing with fields (sounds a little like handling a web page to me). If that is the case then consider:

use strict; use warnings; my %dispatch = ( 0 => \&HandleParam0, 1 => \&HandleParam1, 2 => \&HandleParam2, 3 => \&HandleParam3, 4 => \&HandleParam4, 5 => \&HandleParam5, ); my %params = ( 'default-0' => ['lakja', 'haljl', 'alka'], 'default-1' => 'abc', 'default-2' => [1, 54, 83, 23], 'default-5' => '2019-06-26 00:00:10', ); for my $key (sort keys %params) { next if $key !~ /^default-(\d+)/ || !exists $dispatch{$1}; $dispatch{$1}->($params{$key}); } sub HandleParam0 { my ($values) = @_; print "default-0: @$values\n"; } sub HandleParam1 { my ($str) = @_; print "default-1: $str\n"; } sub HandleParam2 { my ($values) = @_; print "default-2: @$values\n"; } sub HandleParam3 { my ($values) = @_; print "default-3: @$values\n"; } sub HandleParam4 { my ($str) = @_; print "default-4: $str\n"; } sub HandleParam5 { my ($date) = @_; print "default-5: $date\n"; }

Prints:

default-0: lakja haljl alka default-1: abc default-2: 1 54 83 23 default-5: 2019-06-26 00:00:10
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In reply to Re: How to create variables for each hash key that has a value. by GrandFather
in thread How to create variables for each hash key that has a value. by Perl300

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