I have a database setup to create a webmenu

Each menu can have up to 15 links

I Execute a select * from table and assign it to array

Running debug the follwing Menus are created, I want to use is a while statement that breaks when it hits a variable that is undefined or null in the database.

$VAR1 = "AirDefense"; $VAR2 = 2; $VAR1 = "Mobile-N-Site"; $VAR2 = 4; $VAR1 = "Owl"; $VAR2 = 6; $VAR1 = undef; $VAR2 = 8;

using the results above

I defined a variable my $undef = 'undef';

Created a while loop to loop through until undef was found

when i run the loop it never breaks out until it hits all 15 items in the database

while (@MyData[[$y]] ne $undef)

Thanks for the help, Michael

In reply to Breaking out of undef/null database reads by mwill66

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