Hi Monks!
I have the same kind of logic in my code, it seems redundant and I am trying to improve it, but I am running out of options. Is there a better way to have all this code in a hash and match against what comes in from the

my $item = $q->param( 'item' ) || '';

Here is the code I am trying to improve:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI;
use Data::Dumper;

my $q = CGI->new();

print $q->header();

my $item = $q->param( 'item' ) || '';
my $change;

# Get values
if($item=~/test/) {

  $change = "blue";
  
}elsif($item=~/dark/){

  $change = "black";
  
}elsif($item=~/white/){

  $change = "light";
  
}elsif($item=~/house/){

  $change = "home";
  
}elsif($item=~/all things/){

  $change = "multi";
  
}elsif($item=~/money/){

  $change = "value";
  
}elsif($item=~/country/){

  $change = "USA";
  
}else{

  $change = "neutral";

}

print "Final Item = $change";

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Thanks for the help!

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