The first answer that came to mind was the Switch module, but for some reason it doesn't seem to be behaving as expected. Can anyone tell me why this doesn't do what it looks like it should do?

#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Switch 'fallthrough';

sub test_switch {
    my $val = shift;
    switch ( $val ) {
        case 10 { print "a"; }
        case 9 { print "b"; }
        case 8 { print "c"; }
        case 7 { print "d"; }
        case 6 { print "e"; }
        case 5 { print "f"; }
        case 4 { print "g"; }
        case 3 { print "h"; }
        case 2 { print "i"; }
        case 1 { print "j"; }
    }
}

test_switch( 10 );
print "\n";
test_switch( 5 );
print "\n";

__END__
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Results:

a
f
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Maybe I'm overlooking something, but I'm failing to see why this isn't doing just what the OP asked for. Please help.