I have a 3d matrix and I need to check if several elements equals a value (target value could be different for each element in the future).
Is there any way to simplify the if conditional at the end? I am hoping there would be some way to setup a 'conditional' matrix and compare them while ignoring elements that don't matter in the condition.

currently my code is:

use warnings;
use strict;

#fancy matrix
my @matrix; 

#set to a blank 3d test matrix
for my $i (0 .. 6) {
    for my $j (0 .. 6) {
        for my $k  (0 .. 2) {
            $matrix[$i][$j][$k] = 0;
        }
    }
}

#set some values for matrix

for my $j (0..2, 4..6) {
    my $i = 4;
    for my $k  (0 .. 2) {
        $matrix[$i][$j][$k] = 1;
    }
}
for my $i (0..2, 4..6) {
    my $j = 4;
    for my $k  (0 .. 2) {
        $matrix[$i][$j][$k] = 1;
    }
}

#the conditional problem child
if ($matrix[0][4][0] == 1 and $matrix[0][4][1] == 1 and $matrix[0][4][
+2] == 1 and $matrix[1][4][0] == 1 and $matrix[1][4][1] == 1 and $matr
+ix[1][4][2] == 1 and $matrix[2][4][0] == 1 and $matrix[2][4][1] == 1 
+and $matrix[2][4][2] == 1 and $matrix[4][4][0] == 1 and $matrix[4][4]
+[1] == 1 and $matrix[4][4][2] == 1 and $matrix[5][4][0] == 1 and $mat
+rix[5][4][1] == 1 and $matrix[5][4][2] == 1 and $matrix[6][4][0] == 1
+ and $matrix[6][4][1] == 1 and $matrix[6][4][2] == 1 and $matrix[4][0
+][0] == 1 and $matrix[4][0][1] == 1 and $matrix[4][0][2] == 1 and $ma
+trix[4][1][0] == 1 and $matrix[4][1][1] == 1 and $matrix[4][1][2] == 
+1 and $matrix[4][2][0] == 1 and $matrix[4][2][1] == 1 and $matrix[4][
+2][2] == 1 and $matrix[4][4][0] == 1 and $matrix[4][4][1] == 1 and $m
+atrix[4][4][2] == 1 and $matrix[4][5][0] == 1 and $matrix[4][5][1] ==
+ 1 and $matrix[4][5][2] == 1 and $matrix[4][6][0] == 1 and $matrix[4]
+[6][1] == 1 and $matrix[4][6][2] == 1) {
    print "it worked";
}

<stdin>;

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ps: yes this is a shameless crosspost from stackoverflow

In reply to 36 Conditions in If Statement [sendhelp]] by UpTide

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