in reply to IF and some conditions

for rather small values that are OK, this seems to be the fastest solution:
my @ok=(0,0,0,1,0,1,0,1); # 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 my $x = 4; my $y = 5; if($ok[$x]){print "$x is ok\n";} if($ok[$y]){print "$y is ok\n";}
if your OK-values get larger, I would use a hash instead of an array!