Audomatic Garage Door Close

Using Arduino Project Guidance
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As I understand it a statement like (digitalRead(DoorShutSW) is basically shorthand (or another of writing) (DoorShutSW == HIGH)

Then you misunderstand, digitalRead() is function that returns the state of the pin. (DoorShutSW == HIGH) evaluates the pin number, not its state. I explained this in my earlier post.

http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/DigitalRead