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Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: ⭐ (subroutines)

Can I get a subroutine's name from inside the subroutine?

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Re: Can I get a subroutine's name from inside the subroutine?⭐
by vroom (His Eminence) on Jan 10, 2000 at 10:04 UTC
    use the caller function: 
    sub foo {
  my $this_subs_name = (caller(0))[3];
}

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