comment on

but found it didn't produce the output I expected. Unlike C's switch statement, once a condition is met, the entire given construct is finished.

It has been pointed out that you can explicitly continue to produce the output you expected.

Please note, however, that the behaviour of continue is very much different from the fall-through in C, in that the next when condition is still being checked; in C, you go to the contents of the next case without any checks (which would not make much sense in a switch/case anyway).

So the C behaviour (which is difficult to reproduce with the Perl given construct,see this thread) would not produce your expected output either.

In reply to Re: Perl 5.10: switch statement demo by Thilosophy
in thread Perl 5.10: switch statement demo by talexb

Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>
Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.


Perl-Sensitive Sunglasses
	PerlMonks