I have a main script that posts info to a web page. I want to have a way to add other fields to the display, and make it modular - so I want to have a directory of small scripts, each of which knows how to make it's own flavor of output.

The main script would then get a list of scripts in the directory, and then run a specific method from each. E.g. the directory contains (x.pl. y.pl. z.pl), and I then want to run x::display(), y::display(), ...

I can certainly get the list of file names, but an most sure how to then run methods on them. I do not want to run the entire file (x.pl), as some of it is for data update, which will also do a similar thing but is cron driven, not web driven.

Must be simple, but .. not obvious to me!

Thanks, Gregory 

My code looks like this; but the subroutine call won't work.
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for my $file (glob "$Sources/*.pl") {
    $file =~ s/(.*).pl/$1/;
    my $name = $file."::display";
    print " Function:: ", $name, "\n";
    &${name}();
}
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and in Sources/data1.pl::

package Data1;
my $name = "Data1";

sub update() {
    print "Update Data.1 source\n";
}

sub display() {
    print "Display Data.1 source\n";
}

sub setup() {
    print "Setup Data.1 source\n";
}

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In reply to call perl subs in another directory? by guthrie

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