# When their name is... Address them as... my $salute = $name eq $EMPTY_STR ? 'Customer' : $name =~ m/(.*), \s+ Ph[.]?D \z /xms ? "Dr $1" : ? $name ; #### Win8 Strawberry 5.8.9.5 (32) Thu 11/26/2020 5:03:36 C:\@Work\Perl\monks >perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -l my $name = 'xyzzy'; my $salute = $name eq 'foo' ? 'Fooble' : $name eq 'bar' ? 'Barfly' : $name ; print $salute; ^Z xyzzy