if ($input eq $matching[0||1||2]) {die "bastard\n"};
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which means exactly the same as:

if ($input eq $matching[1]) {die "bastard\n"};
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Were you expecting it to mean something different, especially since you said it "works"? In what manner did you mean "works"?

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker