The question cropped up on a mailing list, which struck me as being an interesting one to repost here.
As part of a script the person in question is trying to do something along the lines of 
$a= 10;
$b= 20;
$operator= ">="

if ( $a $operator $b )
{
  ...
}

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operator, a and b are parameters read from a file.
Perl doesn't like that syntax (well, the obvious immediate reason is that 'operator' is a string rather than an actual operator but you see what I'm trying to accomplish). Now whilst it's possible to do a 'case' style statement, it struck me that that's far from an elegant way of doing things. Can someone suggest a proper perlish way of accomplishing this?
Cheers.
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