On 4/3/06, The Ghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> based upon the string in a variable, I want to run a particular
> subroutine:

One way to do this (without the dreaded soft reference) is to have a
lookup table:

    my %table = (
        cat => \&cat,
        jackalope => \&jackalope,
        yeti => \&yeti,
    );

Hope this helps!

--Tom Phoenix
Stonehenge Perl Training

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