Dan Anderson wrote:
>
> Does Perl have any kind of else / unless statements, sort of like
> elsif? I tried:
>
> if ($foo) {
> }
> else unless ($bar) {
> }
>
> but it just gave me syntax errors. And I guess I could just do:
> if ($foo) {
> }
> else {
> unless ($bar) {
> }
> }
>
> But the place in the code I was trying it was for clarity, and all the
> nested unlesses don't seem to add to clarity.
Hi Dan.
No, there's no 'else unless'. It would have to be a single language word
anyway, the obvious choice being 'elsunless' which looks awful.
What you can do is
unless (<condition>) {
:
}
elsif (<condition>) {
:
}
else {
}
which may help if you can rewrite your conditions in these terms.
HTH,
Rob
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