This is basically what i'm doing. The other problem with exiting the sub with next or last is that it seems to completely exit the loop when at least in two cases I want to just move on to the next iteration. 

foreach (@array) {

  if ($something) {
    # do stuff

    if ($something1) {
      # time to move to next iteration of loop
      before_next_stuff();

    }
  }

  if ($somethingelse) {
    # do some other stuff
    before_next_stuff();
  }

  # more stuff in loop

  before_next_stuff();

}

sub before_next_stuff  {
  # lots o stuff
  if ($x > $stop) { 
    last;
  } elsif ($y ne $text) {
    foobar();
  } else {
    next;
  }

}

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In reply to Re^2: next and last within subs by xorl
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