If you can be bothered with an OO approach you can do this:

use strict;
use warnings;

my @diffarray = qw(test info path);

sub new {
    return bless {};
}

sub run {
    my $self = shift;
    
    foreach my $element (@diffarray) {
        my $member = "do_$element";
    
        if ($self->can($member)) {
            $self->{$element} = $self->$member ();
        } else {
            print "Unhandled mode $element\n";
        }
    }
}

sub do_test {
    return 'test';
}

sub do_info {
    return 'info';
}

sub do_path {
    return 'path';
}

my $test = new ();

$test->run ();

print join "\n", map {"$_: " . $test->{$_}} sort keys %$test;

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Prints:

info: info
path: path
test: test

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To add a new handler just add the appropriately named sub.

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re: Alternative to varvarname by GrandFather
in thread Alternative to varvarname by tsk1979

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