So, I was curious about this and looked all over Super Search and google but I am probably forming my search query poorly.

My question is one that I have wondered about for sometime but never pursued out of lack of time. However, I am very curious now to learn how I could do this if at all.

The following code attempt fails:

perl -e '
$a = 5;
$b = 5;
$c = 5;

if ( ($a == $b) == $c ) {
    print "They are the same\n";
} else {
    print "They are not the same\n";
}
'

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Obviously, I had to declare precedence so that the intperpretter wouldn't get confused as to what to compare first then next , but, this still doesn't work. I've tried various other syntactical tweaks in the condition as well but haven't been able to find one that works. I know that you could and or && this but I would like to avoid that if possible.

if ( $a == $b and $a == $c ) {
   print "true\n";
} else {
   print "not true";
}

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I am thinking that this kind of operation would make it very easy to see if a number of variables all equal the same value which could be done in one condition without extra operators or repeating the lvalue more than once.

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- Jim
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In reply to Can If-then conditions do ($a = $b = $c) type expressions? by snafu

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