note broquaint What marvellous timing as I can point you to my new module, <tt>[cpan://Switch::Perlish]</tt> (which should be available on CPAN any moment now if it isn't already). So extrapolating from your node this code should do the job: <code> use Switch::Perlish; switch $your_var, sub { case 'this', \&this_function; case 'that', \&that_function; case 'the', \&the_function; case 'other', \&other_function; default sub { print "Nothing matched '$your_var'\n" }; }; </code> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-87452"> HTH <p/> <tt>_________<br><u>broquaint</u></tt> </div></div> 458948 458948