in reply to Complex if/else or case logic

If it is all constants:

my %actions = ( 'sender a' => { 'some text' => { 'some other text' => 'type 1', 'some other other text' => 'type 2', }, 'some other subject' => { ... }, }, 'sender b' => { ... }, ); sub action { my( $sender, $subject, $body ) = @_; my $rv = $action{$sender} // return 'unknown sender'; $rv = $rv->{$subject} // return 'unknown subject'; $rv = $rv->{$body} // return 'unknown body'; return $rv; }

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