On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:05:46AM -0500, Lance A. Brown wrote:
> On 2013-12-20 10:45 am, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> >Actually Switch is considered rather bad.
> >
> >>#Okay lets setup the school variable
> >>#For sanity lets make sure we got the correct variable from the
> >>script
> >>print "$ARGV[0]n"; #this prints the correct variable
> >>if ($ARGV[0] == "rc") {$school = "rc"} #This line is the only line
> >>evaluated. I always get this value
> >> elsif ($ARGV[0] == "bp") {$school = "bp";}
> >
> >(...)
> >
> >This looks rather a lot like `$school = $ARGV[0];` or maybe `$school =
> >shift;`.
>
> This! Very much this.
>
> if all those comparisons are of the form:
>
> if $ARGV[0] == "X") {$school = "X";}
>
> and none of them do
>
> if $ARGV[0] == "X") {$school = "Y";}
>
> then just assign
>
> $school = $ARGV[0]
>
> No need for that big ugly "switch" statement.
Although you might want to put in a big ugly regexp for
validation purposes.
-dsr-
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