You probably want to use last, as described in Loop Control in perlsyn. That will let you exit the loop at will. You can then track whether you were successful by having a variable with scope outside your loop. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;


my $git_dir = "/tmp/yum_sorted.log";
open(DIR,$git_dir) or die "Really bad!$!";
my @yum = <DIR>;
my $hit; # <--- Inserted lines
              
                foreach my $line ( @yum )
                {
                        
                open(IN_GIT, "/tmp/git_sorted.log") or die "Really, re
+ally bad $!";
                        
                 my @in_git = <IN_GIT>;
                        
                 foreach my $x ( @in_git ) {
                       
                 if ( $line =~ $x ) {
                 print "We found a match: $line\n";
                 $hit = $line; # <--- Inserted lines
                 last; # <--- Inserted lines
                        
}
}
if (defined $hit) { # <--- And final inserted conditional
    # Do something
} else {
    # Do something else
}

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#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

In reply to Re: Breaking out of a loop by kennethk
in thread Breaking out of a loop by rodbass63

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