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Then how I'm achieve that result?(me question is if I give a string then it returns output result with numeric values like based on alphabetic value in numeric type- a is 1, b is 2,c is 3 in this similar way up to..... z is 26 )
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Re^3: Not getting desire output by using switch statement in Perl
by choroba (Cardinal) on Jan 06, 2014 at 12:11 UTC
    Easy. See ord: 
    if ($a =~ /[a-z]/) {
    print ord($a) - 96;
} else {
    print "Everything else";
}

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