Well, first off, why don't you just make you orignal hash something like this: 

    my %commands = (
        cmd1 => \&do_cmd1,
        cmd2 => \&do_cmd2,
        ....
    );

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This buys you the flexibility of passing arguments to the subs, if you so wish to 

    ## untested, just something I thought up right now
    chomp( $input = <STDIN> );
    my( $cmd, @args ) = split( /\s+/, $input );

    if( defined( $commands{ $cmd } ) ) {
        $command{ $cmd }->( @args );
    }

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Obviously you would need to do more error checking and what not, but you get the idea. Also, if you might want to try useing Term::ReadLine and its related modules for soemthing like this. It's quite handy

In reply to (lestrrat) Re: Trying to simulate a CLI using hashes... by lestrrat
in thread Trying to simulate a CLI using hashes... by thoth

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