#! perl -sw use strict; my $var = 7; goto 'CASE'.($var+0); die "$var out of range"; CASE10: print "a"; CASE9: print "b"; CASE8: print "c"; CASE7: print "d"; CASE6: print "e"; CASE5: print "f"; CASE4: print "g"; CASE3: print "h"; CASE2: print "i"; CASE1: print "j"; print "\n"; __END__ P:\test>junk defghij