Re: Trying to compare a string...

[kcott]

G'day calebcall,

A non-empty string (except '0') will always be TRUE in a boolean context. So, 'Sci-Fi' will always be TRUE. Therefore, even if $genres[0] eq 'Science Fiction' was FALSE, $genres[0] eq 'Science Fiction' || 'Sci-Fi' would always be TRUE, and (with the short-circuiting nature of '||') || 'Fantasy' will never be tested.

The same will be true for those other conditions. You might want to consider something like this (untested):

my $genre = $genres[0];

for ($genres[0]) {
    /^(?:Science Fiction|Sci-Fi|Fantasy)$/ && $genre = 'Sci-Fi & Fanta
+sy';
    /^(?:Action|Adventure|War)$/ && $genre = 'Action & Adventure';
    /^(?:Kids|Family)$/ && $genre = 'Kids & Family';
}