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Flow Control
Conditional Block

  • Perl provides basic IF-ELSIF-ELSE conditional syntax

  • Statement blocks delimited by "{ ... }" pair
      if ( $colour eq "red" ) {
      	print "hot\n";
      } elsif ( $colour eq "blue" ) {
      	print "cold\n";
      } else {
      	print "warm\n";
      }
      
  • Notice the spelling of elsif...

  • Notice no "then" keyword