Conditional statements may involve logical operators and usually test equality or

compare one value to another. Here's a look at some common conditional statements.
Remember that the code to be executed will only execute if the condition in parentheses
is met.
ifs.pl:

#!/usr/bin/perl

# HTTP HEADER
print "content-type: text/html \n\n";

# SOME VARIABLES
$x = 7;
$y = 7;

# TESTING...ONE, TWO...TESTING
if ($x == 7) {
print '$x is equal to 7!';
print "<br />";
}
if (($x == 7) || ($y == 7)) {
print '$x or $y is equal to 7!';
print "<br />";
}
if (($x == 7) && ($y == 7)) {
print '$x and $y are equal to 7!';
print "<br />";
}

if.pl:
$x is equal to 7!
$x or $y is equal to 7!
$x and $y are equal to 7!

These operators are discussed thoroughly in our PERL Operators lesson.

PERL - If Else

The else statement is a perfect compliment to an if statement. The idea behind them is
that if the conditional statement is not met then do this. In hypothetical, plain english, "If
this is true do this, if not do this."
ifelse.pl:
#!/usr/bin/perl

# HTTP HEADER
print "content-type: text/html \n\n";
# SOME VARIABLES
$name = "Sarah";

$x = 5;

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# IF/ELSE STATEMENTS
if ($x > 10) {
print "$x is greater than 10!";
} else {
print "$x is not greater than 10!";
}
print "<br />";

# STRINGS ARE A LITTLE DIFFERENT

if ($name eq "Sarah") {
print "Hello, $name!";
} else {
print "You are not $name!";
}

PERL - Elsif Statements

Elsif statements test another conditional statement before executing code. This way
multiple conditions can be tested before the script continues.
elsif.pl:

#!/usr/bin/perl

# HTTP HEADER
print "content-type: text/html \n\n";

# SOME VARIABLES

$x = 5;

# PLAY THE GUESSING GAME

if ($x == 6) {
print "X must be 6.";
}
elsif ($x == 4) {
print "X must be 4.";
}
elsif ($x == 5) {
print "X must be 5!";
}

We could take this example a step further, adding an else statement at the bottom. This
would serve as a catch all if none of the conditions were met.

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conditional statement remains true. It is very easy to write a conditional statement that
will run forever especially at the beginner level of coding. On a more positive note, while
loops are probably the easiest to understand. The syntax is while (coditional statement)
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whilecounter.pl:

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "content-type: text/html \n\n";

# SET A VARIABLE
$count = 0;

# RUN A WHILE LOOP

while ($count <= 7) {
# PRINT THE VARIABLE AND AN HTML LINE BREAK
print "$count<br />";
# INCREMENT THE VARIABLE EACH TIME
$count ++;
}

print "Finished Counting!";

whilecounter.pl:
0
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4
5
6
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Finished Counting!
PERL - Next, Last, and Redo

Outlined below are several interrupts that can be used to redo or even skip iterations of
code. These functions allow you to control the flow of your while loops.

Next
Place it inside your loop and it will stop the current iteration and go on to the next one.
Continue
Executed after each loop iteration and before the conditional statement is evaluated. A
good place to increment counters.
Last
Last stops the looping immediately (like break)
Redo
Redo will execute the same iteration over again.

flowcontrol.pl:

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "content-type: text/html \n\n";

# SET A VARIABLE
$count = 0;
while ($count <= 7) {

# SET A CONDITIONAL STATEMENT TO INTERRUPT @ 4

if ($count == 4) {
print "Skip Four!<br />";
next;
}
 # PRINT THE COUNTER

print $count."<br />";

}
continue {
$count++;
};
print "Loop Finished!";

flowcontrol.pl:
0
1
2
3
Skip Four!
5
6
7
Finished Counting!
Above, we skip the fourth iteration by incrementing the variable again. In the example we
also print a line, "Skip Four!" just to make things easier to follow.
PERL - While Array Loop

Here we are just showing a method of looping through an array using a while loop. We
use three variables to do this including: the array, a counter, and an index number so that
each time the while loop iterates we also loop through each index of the array.
whilearrayloop.pl:

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "content-type: text/html \n\n";

# SET UP AN HTML TABLE

print "<table border='1'>";

# DEFINE AN ARRAY
@names = qw(Steve Bill Connor Bradley);

# COUNTER - COUNTS EACH ROW

$count = 1;

# COUNTS EACH ELEMENT OF THE ARRAY

$n = 0;

# USE THE SCALAR FORM OF ARRAY

while ($names[$n]) {
print "<tr><td>$count</td><td>$names[$n]</td></tr>";
$n++;
$count++;
}
print "</table>";

while.pl:
1 Steve
2 Bill
3 Connor
4 Bradley

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