What i'm after is a shorter way to test whether any of those variables == 1.

If by shorter you mean "golfed down", i.e. achieving the same with less characters typed - it is up to you to be smart, go ahead, be clever.. but if by shorter you mean less convoluted, I'd propose to wrap the test into a loop which aliases each var, more so if there's a variable amount of many variables to test, and it is possible to wrap them into an array (which should be possible but in very weird cases): 

$test_succeeded = 0;
for(@vars_to_test) {
    1 == $_ and ++$test_succeeded and last;
}
if ($test_succeeded) {
    ...
}

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perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

In reply to Re: Testing multiple variables against the same criteria (IF statement) by shmem
in thread Testing multiple variables against the same criteria (IF statement) by Anonymous Monk

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