in reply to call subroutines via hash

You need an explicit arrow operator to dereference (i.e. call) the subroutine. 

$dispatch{$input}->()

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Re^2: call subroutines via hash
by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Jan 04, 2006 at 21:05 UTC
    Not in recent perls. The arrow-between-brackets-is-optional rule has been extended to sub refs. 
    my %thingy;
$thingy{foo} = sub { print "Cool!\n" };
$thingy{foo}();

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Re^2: call subroutines via hash
by eric256 (Parson) on Jan 04, 2006 at 21:02 UTC

    Actualy thats not true. I'm not sure why, I thought the same thing until i went to run it. Turns out that part of the code works. ;)


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