for ( $var ) {
    $_ == 10 and print "a";
    $_ ==  9 and print "b";
    $_ ==  8 and print "c";
    $_ ==  7 and print "d";
    $_ ==  6 and print "e";
    $_ ==  5 and print "f";
    $_ ==  4 and print "g";
    $_ ==  3 and print "h";
    $_ ==  2 and print "i";
    $_ ==  1 and print "j";
}

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There are about ten million other ways to say the same, of course.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re: fall through switch/case in perl by Aristotle
in thread fall through switch/case in perl by ykar

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