I discussed this a while ago in the chatter box, but I can't remember what was suggested.

Do you remember what you asked?

I've read your question four times, and the closest I've seen you come to a question is in the middle :)

I've tried preceding the line with a & and then using eval. The only way that it would work is if I used the full name of the subroutine, which in this case would be Base::HTML::print_definitions(). In the future I may want to print a list of links or use another subroutine I am writing for printing tables. I really don't want to have to use the full names of each subroutine which is part of the text

The following is the code for both print_story and print_definitions which prints the results I expect by themselves. However, I just haven't figured out the best way of getting them to work together. start_html and end_html are the templates I use on every page of my site. The line subroutine just adds tabs to the beginning of a line and then prints a newline after the line. get_hash does what it says, it gets a hash from a data file.

So you want to combine these fragment to do something, but your attempt to use eval to print_definitions isn't quite the best way ....

You you almost have self-contained runnable code, you have some input data, what output do you want to produce?

In reply to Re: Evaluating subroutines from within data by Anonymous Monk
in thread Evaluating subroutines from within data by Lady_Aleena

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.