Hi--- Newer versions of perl have given and when. But that's if you're using a version of perl that's newer than 5.10.1 or newer.
Take Care--- Jerry On Dec 26, 2013, at 9:20 AM, Paul Graydon <p...@paulgraydon.co.uk> wrote: > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
