Re: Not getting desire output by using switch statement in Perl

[dasgar]

Although others have suggested using ord, I would have used a different approach by using Number::Latin.

The code below looks at a character and if its an alphabet (a-z), it will convert it to an integer (regardless of case) and print it. And it will print the string "Something else" if the character is not an alphabet character.

use strict;
use warnings;

use feature 'say';

use Number::Latin;

my $string1 = 'abcdef ghijkl-mnopq,rstuv.wxyz';
my $string2 = uc($string1);

say $string1;
for my $char (split //,$string1) {
    if ($char =~ /[a-zA-Z]/) {say latin2int($char);}
    else {say "Something else"}
}

say $string2;
for my $char (split //,$string2) {
    if ($char =~ /[a-zA-Z]/) {say latin2int($char);}
    else {say "Something else"}
}