You could use sub references instead: 

@listofsubs = (\&sub1, \&sub2, \&sub3);
foreach $sub (@listofsubs)
{
  $sub->();
}

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Or you might be doing this on objects: 
foreach $sub (@listofsubs) {
  $self->$sub()
}

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Or you could just try to find them... if they're in the current package, this might work (untested): 
foreach $sub (@listofsubs) {
  if (not ref $sub)
  {
    $sub = __PACKAGE__->can($sub);
  }
  $sub->();
}

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(by checking if it's a ref, you could comingle names and code-refs: @listofsubs = ('sub1', \&sub2, sub { do_stuff() }); - the object example can handle this, too, only better.)

In reply to Re: calling subroutines from variables by Tanktalus
in thread calling subroutines from variables by bman1974

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