Another alternative to the ones suggested. Put the functions in their own package, and have them all become methods. (The difference being that the method will get the calling object as its first argument. If this doesn't make sense to you, then start with perlboot.)

The reason to do that is that if $meth has the name of a method, then $obj->$meth(@args) will dynamically look up the method on the fly.

You don't actually have to be using OO to do that, you can just use the fact that Perl's facilities for OO support don't tell functions and methods apart very well. The following bad hack should work just fine (albeit fairly slowly) for normal functions: 

use Carp;
# time passes...
sub get_func {
  my $func_name = shift;
  my $pack = caller();
  UNIVERSAL::can($pack, $func_name)
    || croak("Function '$func_name' not found in package '$pack'");
}

# elsewhere what you wanted above becomes
$register = get_func($command)->($register, $param);

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In reply to Re: Dynamically calling different functions? by tilly
in thread Dynamically calling different functions? by Anonymous Monk

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