No, sorry. There is no built-in case/switch statement (yet - in Perl 6 there will be, it's called given).
If you don't mind source filters though, there is the
excellent module Switch.pm by Damian Conway.
Otherwise you will have to use if/elsif statements.
Be aware:
> $choice=<STDIN>;
> if ($choice="1") {
> $choice="Turkey";
> }
> else choice="2"...etx
= assigns, it does not compare! Use eq for string comparison (or == for a numeric one).
janx
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