I often times find myself putting c like switch statements into my code (mostly CGI apps). And since there is no "official" perl way to do this I just use the one that is most aesthetically pleasing to me. 

        foreach $tmp (@{$input})
        {
                SWITCH:
                {
                        if($tmp =~m/$regex1/)
                        {
                                last SWITCH;
                        }
                        if($tmp =~m/$regex2/)
                        {
                                last SWITCH;
                        }
                        if($tmp eq '..')
                        {
                                last SWITCH;
                        }
                        if($tmp eq '.')
                        {
                                last SWITCH;
                        }
                        ### DEFAULT
                        unless(-d "$path$tmp")
                        {
                                push @tmparr, $tmp;
                        }
                } 
        }

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So, since there are so many ways to code switch/case constructs in perl (half a dozen in the camel book alone), which way is the most efficient as far as execution speed goes? Has anyone benchmarked this?

In reply to What is the most efficient perl switch/case statement? by synistar

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