On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 01:22:59PM -0700, Paul wrote:
:
: --- Kaustav Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > Mark,
: > I only recently started coding in PERL so don't take the following as
: > official.
: >
: > There is no CASE statement in PERL. Instead you use something called
: > SWITCH.
: > The O'Reilly book has an example of how to use the SWITCH statement.
:
: Perl has no CASE *or* SWITCH statement.
: You can build one, but it doesn't *have* one.
:
: c.f. perldoc perlsyn
:
: There's a section on switch statements. =o)
Not to mention the ever usefull module called Switch :)
Check it out at:
http://search.cpan.org/doc/DCONWAY/Switch-2.02/Switch.pm
--
Casey West
