Although now with 5.10 you could do
while ( <DATA> ) {
given( $_ ) {
when ( $_ =~ /^NEW YORK:..../ ) {
expression;
}
...
default {
...
}
}
}
Which is pretty nifty, imo
I personally believe that the most powerful characteristic of C<when>'s is the syntactic sugar it provides with implicit matches: which most of the times, actually happen to be smart matches - albeit not in this particular case, in which a similar beast that is a regular bind would be used anyway; thus you wouldn't do $_ =~ /REGEX/ but just as you wouldn't do in Perl quite about anywhere: because as usual you either want to use a full fledged generic variable and the binding operator, or the "topicalizer," i.e. $_, i.e. the pronoun "it" - but implicitly!
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