>> ??-
>> @state="MA CI DE IN OH";
let me try that another way - without the bugs:
vladimir: 81:] perl Switch.pl MA CI bob OH
Process Says: MA_response
Process Says: CI_response
we do not know about state bob
Mr Wizard the stateField OH unguarded at Switch.pl line 41.
vladimir: 82:] sed 's/^/### /' Switch.pl
### #!/usr/bin/perl
###
### use strict;
###
### my %data;
###
### #fill in 11 other states
### my @state = qw(MA CI DE IN OH);
###
### #Make each element of @state a key of hash %data
### #@data{@state } = (1) x @state;
### %data = map { $_ => 1 } @state;
###
### my $response='';
###
### foreach my $statefield (@ARGV) {
###
### # read in the args as states
###
### if ($data{$statefield} ) {
### #
### # Use a switch through
### #
### $_ = $statefield;
### SWITCH: {
###
### /MA/ && do {
### #do MA specific stuff
### $response='MA_response';
### last SWITCH;
### }; # end do MA stuff
###
### /CI/ && do {
### #do CI specific stuff
### $response='CI_response';
### last SWITCH;
### }; # end do MA stuff
###
###
### die "Mr Wizard the stateField $statefield unguarded";
###
### } # end of switch
###
### print "Process Says: $response\n";
### } else {
### print "we do not know about state $statefield \n";
### } # end if statefield
###
### }# end foreach
###
### exit(0);
vladimir: 84:]
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