Hi
mynameisG,
A couple of suggestions about simplifying this part of your code:
if($game eq "Fight") {
if($response eq "arrow" && $correctryhm eq "sparrow")
{
$correctryhm=$correctryhm;
$response=param('response');
$win=param('win');
$win=$win+1;
}
elsif($response ne "arrow" && $correctryhm eq "sparrow")
{
$correctryhm=$correctryhm;
$response=param('response');
$lose=param('lose');
$lose=$lose+1;
}
if($response eq "axe" && $correctryhm eq "wax")
{
$correctryhm=$correctryhm;
$response=param('response');
$win=param('win');
$win=$win+1;
}
elsif($response ne "axe" && $correctryhm eq "wax")
{
$correctryhm=$correctryhm;
$response=param('response');
$lose=param('lose');
$lose=$lose+1;
}code:
...
- The line $correctryhm=$correctryhm; doesn't do anything useful (it assigns variable $correctryhm to its current value). You can safely remove it.
- The line $win=param('win'); can safely be done outside of the if...elsif...else clause, to avoid the repetition. Same thing with $response=param('response');
- A common shorthand for $X = $X + 1 is ++$X. Same thing for $x = $X - 1 => --$X.
Just the above changes will already significantly reduce the complexity of the one big conditional clause:
$response = param('response');
$win = param('win');
$lose = param('lose');
if($game eq "Fight") {
if($response eq "arrow" && $correctryhm eq "sparrow") {
++$win;
} elsif($response ne "arrow" && $correctryhm eq "sparrow") {
++$lose;
}
if($response eq "axe" && $correctryhm eq "wax") {
++$win;
} elsif($response ne "axe" && $correctryhm eq "wax") {
++$lose;
}
if($response eq "shield" && $correctryhm eq "field") {
++$win;
} elsif($response ne "shield" && $correctryhm eq "field") {
++$lose;
}
if($response eq "spear" && $correctryhm eq "tear") {
++$win;
} elsif($response ne "spear" && $correctryhm eq "tear") {
++$lose;
}
if ($win <= 9 && $lose <= 10) {
# Removed for brevity ...
}
}
And if you want to generalize further, you could create a hash (see perldata for more on hashes) containing the expected, correct rhyme for each word:
$response = param('response');
$win = param('win');
$lose = param('lose');
my %correct_rhyme = (
'arrow' => 'sparrow',
'axe' => 'wax',
'shield' => 'field',
'spear' => 'tear',
);
if($game eq "Fight") {
my $correct = $correct_rhyme{$response};
if ($response eq $correct) {
++$win;
} else {
++$lose;
}
if ($win <= 9 && $lose <= 10) {
# Removed for brevity ...
}
}
Now, when you want to add a new word/rhyme pair, it's a straightforward matter of just adding the key/value pair to the %correct_rhyme hash.
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