Hi monks, How could I make a conditional loop more elegant? I want to do one set of statements if it meets the first condition but if it meets the second condition, I want to loop thru that first set of statements within a while loop. See pseudo code below. I want to re-write something like the following, so that I don't have to repeat the set of statements twice in my code. 
    if condition1 {

              stmt1
              stmt2
              ...
              stmt30

    } elsif condition2 {
               while innercondition1 {
                   stmt1
                   stmt2
                    ...
                   stmt30
               }
             }

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I was hoping to avoid a subroutine so I wouldn't have to worry about scoping and references. Maybe something like a goto? I don't know if that's barking up the wrong tree... Thanks in advance for your help, Anna anna@water.ca.gov

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