I have used the Switch module myself in the past but found a couple of bugs with it (i.e. you have to fully specify all matches with a 'm' - m/match/ rather than /match/ else you get really strange errors, and line numbers are out when the compiler errors).

I prefer to use the recommended method in the Camel (see also perldoc -q switch): 

SWITCH: foreach ($1) {
  m/^fred$/  && do {$replace_text='wilma'; last SWITCH};
  m/^wilma$/ && do {$replace_text='fred';  last SWITCH};
  do { die "Unknown check: $_\n" }
}

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The code doesn't look as elegant as with the switch module, but I have had far fewer problems (and I will try Switch again sometime as I like it in principle).

In reply to Re: regex switch trouble by duncs
in thread regex switch trouble by spx2

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