in reply to Testing multiple variables against the same criteria (IF statement)

You could do:

if( grep{ $_ == 1 } $var1, $var2, $var3, $var4 ) {

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But that won't short-circuit -- ie. It will test all 4 variables every time -- and is really only beneficial if the vars are an array.

You might consider List::MoreUtils::any() which will short-circuit.

Personally, if there are only four variables and using an array doesn't work for you; I'd stick with your original statement.

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