Your question suggests a logical confusion. One can't store a subroutine in a scalar variable. You can store a reference to a subroutine in a scalar variable, or you can, as in your code, store the name of a subroutine in a scalar variable.
In the former case, the answer to your question is easy:
my $coderef = \&some_sub; # $coderef contains a reference to &some_su
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my $results = $coderef->();
In the latter case, you can either use eval:
my $subname = 'some_sub';
my $results = eval "$subname()";
die $@ if $@;
or you can treat it as a symbolic ref:
my $results = do { no strict 'refs'; $subname->() };
use strict;
use warnings;
sub some_sub {
print "Hello world!\n";
return 42;
}
my $coderef = \&some_sub;
my $subname = 'some_sub';
print $coderef->(), "\n";
print eval "$subname()", "\n";
die $@ if $@;
print do { no strict 'refs'; $subname->() }, "\n";
__END__
Hello world!
42
Hello world!
42
Hello world!
42
But storing names of subroutines in variables should be a red flag to alert you that you are probably not thinking about the problem in the right way.
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