Thank you all for the info given thus far! I have done more research (not enough yet) and have made modifications so my IF statement now looks like this: 
if (businessCall.value = "Yes_bus") {
   my $subject = "Branch Manager Business Call"; 
   }
else {
   my $subject = "Merchant Referral";
   }

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My error message is now a Software error: Can't modify concatenation (.) or string in scalar assignment near ""Yes_bus") " Global symbol "$subject" requires explicit package name at line 382 (which is where I use the smtp to send the email I am trying to generate).

If I just have a line of code stating: 
my $subject = "Merchant Referral";

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it works without issue. I am 100% messing up the If statement. I have tried without the ".value", with and without '==', as well as with an else if, and else. Most of the example I have looked at are dealing with "If (this happens) { Print statement here }; Not in setting value.

In reply to Re: If statement based on Radio Button Values by jaacmmason
in thread If statement based on Radio Button Values by jaacmmason

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