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in reply to Re: Problem with Tie::RegexpHash
in thread Problem with Tie::RegexpHash

decided to add this as a seperate node

This is the starting point I've got so far:

#!/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"; }

which when called as above returns:

called cmd with 12 arg2

and if the line:
my $txt = "cmd 12 arg2";
is changed to
my $txt = "quit";
returns:

called quit