A more interesting 'nother way to do it' is by dispatching methods. It's still a hash lookup under the hood, but is a fine technique to be aware of for some situations (adding verbs to a parser for example). Consider:

use warnings;
use strict;

print "What is your name?\n";
chomp (my $name = ucfirst <STDIN>);

my $obj = bless {};
my $call = $obj->can ("name$name");

if ($call) {
    $call->();
} else {
    print "I can't handle anyone by the name $name.\n";
}


sub nameLarry {
    print "Hi Larry. Welcome\n";
}


sub nameMoe {
    print "Hi Moe. Late again I see!\n";
}


sub nameTim {
    print "Hi TIMTOWTDI. Still pursuing the alternative life style?\n"
+;
}

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The OP should note that while using an array and grep is an alternative technique, it's not a very good alternative because it doesn't scale well. That is, if there are a lot of names and the lookup needs to be done many times the 'linear search' that grep uses will slow processing down substantially. A small improvement can be made by using a for loop and using last to exit the loop as soon as a match is found, but that really doesn't redeem the array lookup where a hash or method dispatch could have been used.

True laziness is hard work

In reply to Re^2: elsif failing by GrandFather
in thread elsif failing by rcd^_-

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