If you use a hash of subroutine references you can then use the names as keys in the hash.

#! /usr/bin/perl -w -T

use strict;

my %subs = (
  foo => sub { print "Foo!\n" },
  bar => sub { print "Bar!\n" },
);

while ( my $sub_name = <DATA> ) {
    chomp($sub_name);
    if ( defined($subs{$sub_name}) ) {
         &{$subs{$sub_name}};
    }
}

__DATA__
foo
bar
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