An interesting twist is to dispense with the dispatch table:

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'"; } } ...

which prints:

default-0: lakja haljl alka Don't know how to handle 'default-10' at noname1.pl line 20. default-1: abc default-2: 1 54 83 23 default-5: 2019-06-26 00:00:10

where the second line is a warning line. Using this technique means you only need to create correctly named handler subs to add support for new fields and you get told if there is a missing handler. Both features make maintenance much easier!

Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond

In reply to Re^2: 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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