Calling a sub resolved from a scalar read from STDIN, fixing your code a bit:
package ECHO_MODULE; sub say_hi {print "hi\n";} sub say_bye {print "bye\n"} package main; print "enter subroutine name: "; chop ($subname = <STDIN>); if (ECHO_MODULE->can($subname) ) { ECHO_MODULE->$subname(); } else { print "sub '$subname' not defined.\n"; }

Read the perl documentation, namely perlrun, perlsub, perlref... anything, all, more.

update, as per privmsg from memnoch:

For the can() method, see perlobj: it resides in the module UNIVERSAL from which all classes implicitly inherit as their last base class. As chromatic pointed out below, the method can() returns a subroutine reference for its argument, and calling a sub as method or function makes a difference. ECHO_MODULE->$subname() will get ECHO_MODULE as its first argument, while ECHO_MODULE->can($subname)->() will not. It all depends on the design of the package - is it a functional package (a.k.a library) or a class?

--shmem

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In reply to Re: variable subroutine call by shmem
in thread variable subroutine call by davg

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