Greetings,

I've got what may amount to a simple question, but I cannot recall seeing anything like this before around here. (And I will admit that I'm not quite sure what other words to send into the search box to fully find anything even mildly related.)

So, here's my current code: 

$byte = '';
if ($obj->{organization} =~ /^\s*$/)
{ $byte .= '0'; }
else
{ $byte .= '1'; }
...
if ($obj->{report} =~ /^\s*$/)
{ $byte .= '0'; }
else
{ $byte .= '1'; }

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Extra details, the ... represents 6 more statements like the ones I have entered. All 8 checks are done to build a byte to check against a truth table as such: 
if ($byte =~ /1(0|1){3}0{3}(0|1)/)
{ do more checks against database }
elsif ($byte =~ /0{4}1(0|1)0{2}/)
{ do other checks against database }
else
{ produce error message }

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What I want to do, is (unless I'm doing it the most efficient way, which I don't think I am) find a better way to build that byte. Nonetheless, I figured it would be nice to see a real world application of discrete mathematics.

ALL HAIL BRAK!!!

In reply to Building a byte to test truth table by PsychoSpunk

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