Re: Sub ref from string without eval

If you know which package you expect your subroutine to be in you might also be able to use the functionality of UNIVERSAL::can

use strict;
use warnings;

sub Foo { warn 'foo'}

my $x = 'Foo';

my $sub_ref = main->can($x);

$sub_ref->();
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Re^2: Sub ref from string without eval by Rhandom (Curate) on Apr 03, 2012 at 13:38 UTC
Which is generalized even better as: `my $sub_ref = __PACKAGE__->can($x);` [download] my @a=qw(random brilliant braindead); print $a[rand(@a)];	[reply] [d/l]