in reply to Dynamically Calling a Subroutine

when I added this: 
use strict;

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It gave an error. 
Can't use string ("update_test") as a symbol ref while "strict refs"

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Re^2: Dynamically Calling a Subroutine
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 12, 2011 at 23:56 UTC

    Then use:

    my $result = do{ 
    no strict 'refs'; 
    *{ 'update_' . $n }->() 
};;
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