Dear Masters,

Currently I have following code. As you can see it has a very large else-if condition.

Is it possible to put this else-if condition in the separate file? (since they are going to be used for several other scripts). If it is possible, how can we do it? 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $dataset = $ARGV[0] || 'foo1';

my @act_bsites;
if ( $dataset eq 'foo1') {
   @act_bsites = (
     '1 - 201 - 229',
     '2 - 201 - 229',
     '3 - 201 - 229',
   );
}
elsif ( $dataset eq 'foo2') {
   @act_bsites = (
     '1 - 201 - 218',
     '2 - 201 - 218',
     '3 - 201 - 218',
     '4 - 201 - 218',
     '5 - 201 - 218',
     '6 - 201 - 218',
     '7 - 201 - 218',
   );
}
#..... goes on with 150 of such conditions (upto foo150).

# do something with @act_bsites

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Update: Thanks for the suggestions so far. I am aware that accessing with HOA can be done. But my problem is that the the generation of the @act_bsites coordinate took very long time, and I need to re-use them with other scripts. That's why I need to hardcode the else-if condition.

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neversaint and everlastingly indebted.......

In reply to Accessing Large Else-If Condition in a Separate Files by neversaint

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