#!perl -l use strict; use warnings; no warnings 'exiting'; my ($x); sub do_onething { if ($x) { print $x--; redo ATTEMPT } else { $x=10; print "Done onething."; } }; sub do_another { if ($x) { print "Done another."; last ATTEMPT } }; $x=10; ATTEMPT:{ do_onething } ATTEMPT:{ for ('A'..'Z') { print $_; do_another; } } #### sub retry(&$) { my $sub_ref = shift; my $max = shift ||3; ATTEMPT: for my $try (1..$max) { eval { $sub_ref->(); }; last unless $@; warn "Failed $try, retrying. Error: $@\n" } if ($@) { die "failed after $max tries: $@\n" } } my $t=0; retry { print "Seeya!" and last ATTEMPT if $t++>4; die "failure"; } 10;