Like most of the comments above, I don't know exactly what you are trying to accomplish by doing this. But since you mention it is part of a CGI script, I am tempted to believe you are handling a POSTed form and after checking the parameters you would like to redisplay the original form with some error messages. But your program design is such that you need to start your program over to display the form again.

If this is the case, then I would suggest you look at some tools that help organize your code in a much more comprehensive way. Particularly have a look at the CGI::Application module. This lets you divide your CGI program up into "run modes", and it makes it trivial to jump from one "run mode" to another.

I would paste in an example, but the docs have lots of examples, and you can do a Super Search here at PerlMonks and find tonnes of help on using CGI::Application.

Good Luck

- Cees

In reply to Re: How to exit subroutine and go to Beginning of CGI Script? by cees
in thread How to exit subroutine and go to Beginning of CGI Script? by karlmi

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