"Catriona Wordsworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi guys,
>
> Needing a little assistance with some issues I am having trying to get my
script to print variable details into and email generated by the script.
>
> so far the script generates the email with (sendmail-t) etc
>
> then goes on print MAIL "print this"
>
> what I now want it to do is this...
>
> if ($variable eq "this") {then print MAIL " this is it"}
> elsif ($variable eq "that") {then print MAIL "that isn't it"}
> elsif ($variable eq "then") {then print MAIL "I don't know"}
>
> but when I do this it asks if I need to define the print and when I take
out print MAIL it doesn't work at all.
>
I dont understand what the sentence above means and your conditional is not
perl code, but you should use a hash instead of the conditional above:
my(%messages) = (
this => "this is it",
that => "that isn't it",
then => "I don't know"
);
print MAIL $messages{ $variable };
Use your $variable to conditionally determine which hash value to send.
And please use descriptive identifiers. We already know $variable is a
variable.
HTH,
Todd W.
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