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in reply to Can I clean this up??

First off consider what the if statement is doing:
open(FIL,">>$myfil") || die "No open for ct tot: $! \n"; if($ct == 1){ print FIL "\n$ct is down at this time.\n"; } elsif($ct >= 2){ print FIL "\n$ct are not available at this time.\n"; } system("mailx -s 'Mail header' myemail < $myfil"); close(FIL);

Secondly consider using a pipe instead of writing to a file:
open(MAIL,"|mailx blah) || die "No mail stuff: $! \n"; if($ct == 1){ print MAIL "\n$ct is down at this time.\n"; } elsif($ct >= 2){ print MAIL "\n$ct are not available at this time.\n"; } close(MAIL);
Try some common Perl tricks:
# Removed brackets, replaced || with or due to higher presedence and r +eadability # used single quotes on uninterpolated strings. open MAIL,'|mailx blah' or die "No mail stuff: $!\n"; # Stuck the if statements at the end so it's more natural. print MAIL "\n$ct is down at this time.\n" if $ct == 1; print MAIL "\n$ct are not available at this time.\n" if $ct >= 2; close(MAIL);

What? more elegant?.....um, it's arguable.
open(MAIL,"|mailx blah) || die "No mail stuff: $! \n"; SWITCH: { $ct >= 2 && { print MAIL "\n$ct are not available at this time.\n +"; last SWITCH }; $ct == 1 && { print MAIL "\n$ct is down at this time.\n"; last SW +ITCH }; } close(MAIL);

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Brother Frankus.

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