John Deighan wrote:
> We have a goto in our code. I hate it, but there just isn't a good
"switch" or "case" statement in Perl yet
Yes there is, in Perl 5.8. If you're using an older Perl, you can still get
Switch.pm from CPAN.
use Switch;
switch ($val) {
case 1 { print "number 1" }
case "a" { print "string a" }
case [1..10,42] { print "number in list" }
case (@array) { print "number in list" }
case /\w+/ { print "pattern" }
case qr/\w+/ { print "pattern" }
case (%hash) { print "entry in hash" }
case (\%hash) { print "entry in hash" }
case (\&sub) { print "arg to subroutine" }
else { print "previous case not true" }
}
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