Lets say I have a list of subroutine names in an array, and I want to loop throught that array and call the subroutines named. (putting references as the values isnt an option because I dynamically generating the list from a db, but I am simplifying). 
@listofsubs = qw(sub1 sub2 sub3);
foreach $sub (@listofsubs) {
  #something to call $sub;   
}

sub sub1 {
  #does sub1 stuff
}

sub sub2 {
  #does sub2 stuff
}

sub sub3 {
  #does sub3 stuff
}

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The list of subs will be known, I just dont want to write a bunch of if statements to process each one. I was thinking about creating a hash that points to each of the sub routines, but I was thinking there was something easier. Thanks, B

In reply to calling subroutines from variables by bman1974

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