On Jun 11, Ron Smith said:
Does Perl have the equivalent of a case statement or a switch statement.
I'm trying to avoid a bunch of "if-then" statements. I'm seeing posts
regarding "use switch", but I want to make sure it's not a deprecated
practice. I'm using Perl -v 5.8.0.
The Switch.pm module isn't standard with Perl, but is a way to do it...
... but in your case, all you really need is a hash!
my %day_of_week = (
mon => 0,
tue => 1,
wed => 2,
thu => 3,
fri => 4,
sat => 5,
sun => 6,
);
$num = $day_of_week{$day};
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