Greetings, Perl Monks! I have a program setup so that it chooses it's function(each one in a sub) based on user input. Naturally, it would be unwise to use this input directly in a call, so I devised a way to avoid it. My method works, but I think it obvious there is a better way to do it. Here is my current method, distilled:
#!perl -w
use strict;
use CGI qw/:Standard/;
CGI::header();
my $sub = CGI::param('type');
my $data = CGI::param('info');
if($sub eq 'first'){
&one($data);
} elsif($sub eq 'second') {
&two($data);
} else {
&one($data);
}
sub one {
print "Sub one says: $_[0]";
}
sub two {
print "Sub two says: $_[0]";
}
Is there a better way to get this done? Any help is greatly appreciated!
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