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in reply to conditional syntax options

If you want to check against a lot of constants, you can grep:

if(not grep {$string eq $_} qw{ X Y })

You can extend the list with X and Y as much as you like. Using it on two values only is overkill.

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Re^2: conditional syntax options
by Albannach (Monsignor) on Jun 28, 2009 at 17:21 UTC
    That was my thought as well, but as citromatik points out, Perl 5.10's ~~ is a very good option, even better in fact!

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