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A package is just a namespace identified by a string.

package Test::One; sub hello{ my $var = shift; print "Hello: $var\n"; } 1; package Test::Two; sub hello{ my $var = shift; print "Hello: $var\n"; } 1; package main; use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my @pkgs = qw( One Two ); foreach my $pkg ( @pkgs ) { "Test::$pkg"->hello(); }

This is one step toward full-fledged classes and objects, which may be a better solution in the longrun: perlobj.

If you can't plan on passing the package name as the first parameter (which is what the Class->method() notation does), then you have to construct the fully qualified sub name, which means symbolic references and some ugly syntax:

foreach my $pkg ( @pkgs ) { no strict 'refs'; &{'Test::' . $pkg . '::hello'}($pkg); }

Update: Good job on figuring out the symbolic ref syntax on your own. Looks like we both came up with the same.


Dave


In reply to Re: Dynamic Package Name & Subroutine Call by davido
in thread Dynamic Package Name & Subroutine Call by awohld

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