[plug] Perl Query...

[Trevor Phillips]

Ok, so not strictly Linux-related, but I thought I'd try here before battling
wider-scale groups. ^_^

Are there any Perl Guru's extraordinaire on this list? I'm trying to figure out
how to call a subroutine in a Perl module, where the name of the routine is
arbitary and stored as a string in a scalar.

eg; If I have a variable bink which has the value bill ($bink = "bill"), such
that I want to call subroutine bill using bink in module Fred, how would I do
it??

More to the point, how do I do it elegantly? ^_^
One way I've nutted out is like this:
  exec "Fred->$bink"
But that doesn't seem to be very efficient (using exec & all), and gets more
complex when you want to pass args to $bink...

Any ideas??

If not, can anyone reccommend other public forums where queries like this are
fielded?

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