Perl help: if condition to match multiple strings?

[Muzammil Rehman]

Hi all

I am new to perl programing , need help with if condition to match multiple strings.

Code is something like

if ($var ne "abcd" || $var ne "qprs")
{ somthing; }

else { someting; }

if this is not suppose to work anything else i can try ?
$var should match / compare with multiple strings and if any of them dont match move to else statment