Select / Case in perl

[Bill H]

I did a search of the group and found many messages about a select /
case function in Perl and found references to perldoc -f case and
perldoc -f switch - but neither of these are found under activestate
v5.8's perldoc. Can someone point me to some reference on how to
simulate this structure in perl so I dont have to use endless if's?

Bill H

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

I did a search of the group and found many messages about a select /
case function in Perl and found references to perldoc -f case and
perldoc -f switch - but neither of these are found under activestate
v5.8's perldoc. Can someone point me to some reference on how to
simulate this structure in perl so I dont have to use endless if's?

perldoc Switch

 

[Bill H]

I did a search of the group and found many messages about a select /
case function in Perl and found references to perldoc -f case and
perldoc -f switch - but neither of these are found under activestate
v5.8's perldoc. Can someone point me to some reference on how to
simulate this structure in perl so I dont have to use endless if's?

Bill H

Never mind - someone must have been reading my mind and posted a FAQ
yesterday about it - not sure why it didnt show up when I searched the
group in google groups though.

Bill H

 

[Robert Hicks]

perldoc Switch

I have read under various postings that "Switch" is bad and to not use
it.

Robert

 

[A. Sinan Unur]

Please don't quote sigs.

I have read under various postings that "Switch" is bad and to not use
it.

I will concur with that. In most cases, using a hash to look up actions
or the plain old cascading if-elsif blocks are quite straightforward.
Switch.pm is a source filter (AFAIK) and therefore can be fooled by
oddities in the layout of the source etc.

Sinan