Well, thank you John. This is the version I gave him for all you people wondering out there.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use CGI qw(:standard);
use strict;  #always!


my $location = param("place");
print header; 
my %subs = (
    'home'=>\&home, # Just add a key and then a value then put your 
    'news'=>\&news, # stuff in a subroutine :) Yay!
);

if (!$location){
    &home
}elsif (defined(my $action = $subs{$location})){# Thanks Chromatic 
    $action->();                                
}
# Q&A -> Subroutines -> How to make subroutine accessible as foo.pl?fo
+o
# Thanks again :-) 

###############
# Subroutines #
############### 
sub home{
    print "this is home. I am John, hear me roar";
}
sub news{
    print "this is news";
}
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Wanna be perl hacker.
Dave AKA damian

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