It's novice grovel time again chaps! Is there a Perl equivalent of the UNIX case statement? I've not found one but a colleague has a need for this type of thing. ( I suggested a hash table containing the names of local subroutines but was scoffed at!) She has a Perl script that returns 2 values. Depending on the 4 allowed combinations of these values she performs different actions. A nested if would also do but is rather ugly. In a similar vain I've not found a way to action several commands as the right hand side of an "or" statement. 
if ($fred) {
  &ACC_Oracle_profile or &ACC_LOG_ERROR" ;
                         &ACC_Oracle_DBI("$a","$b") or die "help ma bo
+ab!" ;
                         &ACC_end or die "We're doomed!" ;
                         $end_it() ;
}

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Is there a way to do this (other than by writing a sub or am I being Very silly)? Cheers, Ronnie

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