On Nov 12, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
"Ken" == Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ken> You want:
Ken> eval "$subroutine_name(\$hashref)";
Only if you also want "slow" and "dangerous'. See the other answers
in this thread for safer faster solutions.
Yeah, I know, but I posted it because I didn't really like the other
solutions; while they use "better" (and more complicated)
techniques, they won't actually solve the OP's problem. The
"pretend you have methods instead of subroutines" solution is just
wishful thinking, and the "dispatch tables" solution seems
overengineered and won't work unless the specific list of allowed
functions (rather than just a naming-scheme pattern or similar) is
known to the dispatcher.
As it turns out, I already had a list of allowed functions because I
didn't want to be eval'ing things from the text files and have it
error out (as I knew I would be building the functions over time and
I know I will always be missing some as there are potentially
thousands of them--each represents a Lego brick...). So the dispatch
table worked fine.
Thanks!
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Thanks,
James Reynolds
University of Utah
Student Computing Labs
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
801-585-9811
