in reply to Best Way to Skip out of a sub Entirely

As Abigail-II suggests, use return.

But just for completeness1 you can use next to skip in your loop e.g

sub foo { bar(); print "at $_\n" } sub bar { next LOOP if $_ % 2 == 0 } LOOP: for(0 .. 10) { foo() } __output__ at 1 at 3 at 5 at 7 at 9

HTH

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