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I'd write that as:

given($answer) { 
    when ('1') {error_entry();} 
    when ('2') {warning_entry();} 
    default {die "Expected 1 or 2 for the answer. Got $answer\n";}
}

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Using a regex match would match on any answer containing a 1 digit for the first case and any answer containing a 2 digit for the second case. Maybe not a problem for your application, but as a general thing you should validate data and handle unexpected data in some appropriate fashion. die is most appropriate for production code when you are using it to throw exceptions that are caught by eval. Generally it is much better to die and have it handled (or not in which case to script does die) than to carry on processing bogus data.

True laziness is hard work

In reply to Re^3: Why is my script not printing anything?and how to add a switch case in perl by GrandFather
in thread Why is my script not printing anything?and how to add a switch case in perl by iphone

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