On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:45:05AM -0500, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:39 AM, john boris <jbori...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have this perl script that I have a long if/elsif portion. I am > porting a shell script to perl so I am trying to mimic a case statement > from a shell script. I know I should use Switch but the version > > Actually Switch is considered rather bad.
I don't think I've heard that before.. why is switch considered bad? In most languages it is supposed to be far more efficient than a nested if statement. Paul _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/