This is greatly simplified - I hope it makes sense. :)

I am trying to loop over rows of an array doing a test. If the test fails, I want to go all the way back to the outer loop, which the documentation suggests will work only with foreach.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my @x =
    (
    ['aaaaa', 'bbbbb', 'ccccc', 'ddddd',],
    ['eeeee', 'fffff', 'ggggg', 'hhhhh',],
    ['iiiii', 'jjjjj', 'kkkkk', 'lllll',],
    );

for my $i (1 .. 1000)
    {
    for my $a (@x)
        {
        my $ifails = 0;
        for my $j (0 .. (scalar @$a) - 1 )
            {
            <get external data string for pattern matching here, put i
+n $c>
            if ($c =~ /$a->[$j]/) { $ifails++; }
            }
        if ($ifails > 1) { want to go to outer loop here, and not proc
+ess the next (and subsequent) row(s) }
        }
    }

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Is there some way of doing that? Note that in the actual application, I do have more more processing below the inner loop, so a "last" statement at the test doesn't work.

Thank you in advance.

In reply to returning to the outer loop by Anonymous Monk

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