SPUG: Hashes and subroutines
Christopher Howard
choward at indicium.us
Mon Jan 5 16:07:59 PST 2009
I've got this situation where I execute a certain subroutine based on the
value of a variable, like so:
if($var eq 'play') { sub1() }
elsif($var eq 'that') { sub2() }
elsif($var eq 'funky') { sub3() }
elsif($var eq 'music') { sub4() }
...
Is there some way to do this with a hash instead? Say, the possible values
of $var are the keys in the hash, and subroutine names (or references or
whatever) are the values in the hash? It'd be nice if I could write out
one long hash, and then a small piece of code to execute the
appropriate subroutine, instead of 20+ elsif statements.
--
Christopher Howard
http://indicium.us
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