Gossamer Forum: General: Perl Programming: switch??

Aug 6, 2003, 5:47 AM

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Aug 6, 2003, 5:47 AM

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switch??

just want to know is there a switch in perl like in C/java?

Aug 6, 2003, 5:59 AM

Andy

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Aug 6, 2003, 5:59 AM

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What kind of switches? Like here;

http://perldoc.com/...unc.html#DESCRIPTION

... with the -w etc switches you can use?

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Aug 6, 2003, 7:01 AM

Paul

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Aug 6, 2003, 7:01 AM

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Do you mean like this in VB?

Code:
Select Case (Variable) 
   case "xyz" 
      MsgBox "Hi" 
   case "abc" 
      MsgBox "Bye" 
End Select

Aug 6, 2003, 11:27 AM

Alex

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Aug 6, 2003, 11:27 AM

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Nope, no official syntax, but a lot of ways to do it. See:

http://www.perldoc.com/...h-or-case-statement-

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Aug 6, 2003, 11:29 AM

Alex

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Aug 6, 2003, 11:29 AM

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Oh, and if you really want some powerful switch handling, there's always:

http://search.cpan.org/...witch-2.09/Switch.pm

(but it's slow as it actually rewrites your code on the fly -- but very cool).

Cheers,

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