The for ($funct) { ... } one-time loop is better written as 

{
    local $_ = $funct;
    #...
}

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but switches are awkward things in perl. They are always a scan over a bunch of conditions. You can only group the most frequent requests first to improve them.

Another way, tidier I think, is to build a dispatch table of the coderefs, 

my %action = (
    'Save News' => \&savenews,
    'Save Book' => \&addbook,
    'Save Observ' => \&addobserv,
    'Save Rule' => \&addrule,
    # ...
    'Next' => \&viewbooks,
    'Prev' => \&viewbooks,
);

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Now you can call any action by $action($funct}->() or default(); (for some sub default). I've eliminated the case insensitivity, since the keys ought to be coming from your form.

Update: runrig++ is wise to suggest checking for existence of the $func key. His trinary op for calling is better than what I showed. I forgot to mention that the CGI::Application module provides a good wrapper for this sort of thing.

After Compline,
Zaxo

In reply to Re: Redirection within a Perl script by Zaxo
in thread Redirection within a Perl script by bradcathey

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