Re: Can't use string as a subroutine ref while "strict refs"

On 11/09/2006 06:56 AM, Sara wrote:
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> use CGI;
>
> my $q = new CGI;
>
> my $do = $q->param('do') || 'main'';

my $do = $q->param('do') || main();

> if ($do) {
> &$do;
> }
>
> sub main {
> blah blah
> }
> =========================================
> Trying to call the subroutine main from variable $do but I am gettin' error:
> Can't use string ("main") as a subroutine ref while "strict refs.
> But somehow I don't want to remove the 'use Strict;'
>
> Any way out?
> [...]

Yes.
Start->Run->"perldoc perlsyn"
Start->Run->"perldoc perlsub"




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