Update: Removed the unneeded nested foreach loop.

You can use foreach in place of given without the weird side effects. I adapted the following from an example at brian d. foy's blog about given/when.

use v5.10;  
use warnings;

foreach ( 'a', 'z', 5..11 ) {
    when( /a/ ) { say "$_ : ", 'Matched an a' }  
    when( [ 2..5 ] ) { say "$_ : Matched 2 through 5" }  #line 7
    when( [ 6..10 ] ) { say "$_ : Matched 6 through 10" }  
    default     { say "$_ : Matched nothing" }  
}

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a : Matched an a
Argument "z" isn't numeric in smart match at C:\b\perlmonks\switch.pl 
+line 7.
z : Matched nothing
5 : Matched 2 through 5
6 : Matched 6 through 10
7 : Matched 6 through 10
8 : Matched 6 through 10
9 : Matched 6 through 10
10 : Matched 6 through 10
11 : Matched nothing

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In reply to Re: range comparison in given by Lotus1
in thread range comparison in given by mrguy123

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