#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use diagnostics; my %cmds; my $rgx; my $sub; $cmds{qr/^\s*quit/} = \&quit; $cmds{qr/^\s*cmd .*/} = \&cmd; my $txt = "cmd 12 arg2"; foreach $rgx (keys(%cmds)) { if ( $txt =~ /$rgx/i ) { $sub = $cmds{$rgx}; &$sub($txt); } } exit; sub quit { print "called quit\n"; } sub cmd { my ($cmd, @argx) = split /\s+/, $_[0]; print "called ".$cmd." with ".$argx[0]." ".$argx[1]."\n"; }