If you're trying to test 25 different variables, I'm at a loss. If you can somehow get all the conditions into a few variables, you can construct a switch-like statement. While there's no switch construct in perl there are many ways to construct one. My favorite is to use a single-iteration "for" loop, straight from the 2nd Edition Camel:

for( $value )
{
    /matchthis/ and do{ something(); last;};

    ($_ > 42)   and do{ something_else(); last;};


    default();
}
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so long as the first term in an entry in the for loop returns a boolean value, you don't need to limit yourself to strict equality operations, which is a real bonus in my eyes over the conventional switch statement found in other languages.

update: If you can't get it down to one variable, but can get it down to two or three, you can always put another one of these pseudo-switches inside one of the do blocks.

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