update: actually i guess Ovid's also assumes a where clause, but then again so did my original post :) but it can be easily adapted by simply using saying  else { $string = $a } at the end...

I do something very similar alot, but the problem is that this assumes there will be a where clause. I'm in a situation where there could be none or many. It's also not a whole list of things, just a few. I think Ovid's response is what I was looking for, but you have done this a bit nicer than i usually do so i'll take that too :)

-- I'm a solipsist, and so is everyone else. (think about it)

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