Update: Doh! Didn't read through the thread far enough to see Tanktalus had already given a better version of the same trick (twice).

Really light weight OO stuff can ease the path:

use strict;
use warnings;

my @listofsubs = qw(sub1 wibble sub2 sub3);
my $obj = bless {};

for my $sub (@listofsubs) {
  if (my $callSub = $obj->can ($sub)) {
    $callSub->();
    next;
  }
  
  print "Can't $sub\n";
}

sub sub1 {
  print "does sub1 stuff\n";
}

sub sub2 {
  print "does sub2 stuff\n";
}

sub sub3 {
  print "does sub3 stuff\n";
}

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Prints:

does sub1 stuff
Can't wibble
does sub2 stuff
does sub3 stuff

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and all you need to do to add a new sub is add the sub.

Perl reduces RSI - it saves typing

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

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