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in reply to Need help testing to see if a variable is one value or the other

Alternately (heh) use a regex. 

if( $var =~ m/\A ( yes | no ) \z/x ) {
  print "you chose $1\n";
} else {
  print "BAD USER, NO DONUT!\n";
}

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