Thanks for your input. I'm still trying to get my hands around this concept of dispatch tables by construnction a small example here below: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w


my @p_dlruom = ("EACH","FEET","FT","IN","UNIT");

my %validator = (
    P_12MONTHDEMANDQTY => \&validate_number,
    P_DLRUOM => \&validate_p_dlruom
);


validate_fields(EACH, P_DLRUOM);



sub validate_fields
{
    my ($updateval, $colname) = @_;

    #print "$updateval $colname\n";

    if (! exists $validator{ $colname }) {
        print "'$colname' is not a valid column name.";
    };

    my $code = $validator{ $colname };

    if (! $code->($updateval, $colname)) {
        print "'$updateval' is not a valid value for '$colname'.";
    } else {
        print "'$updateval' is a valid value for '$colname'.";
        return 1
    };
}

sub validate_p_dlruom
{
 my $val = shift;

 my @match = grep (/$val/i, @p_dlruom);

 print "The value of $val you have chosen for P_DLRUOM is outside of t
+he allowable range.\n" if !(@match);

}

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In reply to Re^2: Need help with Validation script by ssmith001
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