use Modern::Perl; use YAML qw/DumpFile LoadFile/; local $YAML::UseCode = 1; my $code = { snippet1 => sub { my $counter; for ( 1 .. 10 ) { say; $counter++ } say $counter; } }; DumpFile( './snippet.yml', $code ); my $snippets = LoadFile('./snippet.yml'); # <- Put this in the initialization part of your program &{ $snippets->{snippet1} }; # and run the snippet