I was reading through a beginner's perl book that has a very bulky style of writing code. So, I've been trying to develop a certain style of dealing with conditionals and i came across a question I can't seem to find an answer to: Is it possible to write up a hash key that is but a simple expressing using the while loop below? 
while ()
{
 print "Pick a number between 1 and $top: ";
  chomp($guess = <>);
 if ($guess == 0 || $guess eq '0'){
  print "Not a suitable number.\n";}
 elsif ($guess < $num) {
  print "Too Low!\n";$count++;}
 elsif ($guess > $num) {
  print "Too high!\n"; $count++;}
 else  {
  print "\a\aW00t W00t! You got it!\n"; 
        $count++;last;}
}

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With this i wondered if it was possible to take the test($guess < $num) and write up a hash instead to look something like %guess = ($guess < $num) => "Too Low!\n";$count++,
Or is this not possible? **Full code can be found in sketchpad

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In reply to Having an expression as a hash key by sub_chick

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