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References to Functions in Perl
While using Perl script, this might happen if you need to create a signal handler so you can produce a reference to a function by preceding that function name with \& and to dereference that reference you simply need to prefix reference variable using ampersand &. Following is an example −
Example
#!/usr/bin/perl # Function definition sub PrintHash { my (%hash) = @_; foreach $item (%hash) { print "Item : $item\n"; } } %hash = ('name' => 'Tom', 'age' => 19); # Create a reference to above function. $cref = \&PrintHash; # Function call using reference. &$cref(%hash);
Output
When the above program is executed, it produces the following result −
Item : name Item : Tom Item : age Item : 19
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