in reply to subroutines - creating a custom subroutine and 'subroutine redefined' errors

The code in Re: Howto avoid large hard-coded else-if function calls seems to be an almost exact match for your requirement.

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Re^2: subroutines - creating a custom subroutine and 'subroutine redefined' errors
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 14, 2007 at 12:46 UTC
    Thanks to everyone for the replies - a dispatch table was exactly what I needed and has cleaned up my code very nicely! Cheers.
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