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July 3rd, 2000, 05:49 AM

walshs

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is it possible to write case statements in Perl ??

if so do you know the syntax ?

ie

case (x)
do y
case (z)
do A

etc,

similar to a switch statement in PHP

thanks in advance

Waseem

July 3rd, 2000, 09:14 AM

RyanP

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i don't think the switch conditional exists in perl, just have to use if/else

July 4th, 2000, 01:15 AM

Shiju Rajan

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yea ,you can't use case statements in perl..
you should use 'if ...elsif' for conditions....

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