However you store the attribute value pairs, if there are many of them, I would suggest that you load them into a hash. Something like YAML::Syck or Config::Tiny may help with the storage. The code below may give you ideas about the other half of your question: 
use strict;
use warnings;

my %description_of = (
                      server1 => "Webserver",
                      server2 => "DMZ Server",
                      server3 => "Oracle Server",
                      );

my $DEFAULT_DESCRIPTION = "Unknown Server";

my @servers = qw(server1 server2 server3 server42);

for my $server (@servers) {
    printf "%s\n", get_description_of( $server );
}
exit( 0 );

sub get_description_of {
    my ($server) = @_;

    if (defined $description_of{ $server }) {
        return $description_of{ $server };
    }
    return $DEFAULT_DESCRIPTION;
}

__END__

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which prints: 
Webserver
DMZ Server
Oracle Server
Unknown Server

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Cheers.

In reply to Re: Using a lookup table(?) by fenLisesi
in thread Using a lookup table(?) by shandor

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