I used it for the first time yesterday to pseudo-insert new items into my foreach list:
sub line_wrap { my ($str, $max) = @_; my $line; my @lines; foreach $line (split($BRK, $str)) { # # Collapse spaces and tabs. # s/\s+/ /g; if (length($line) > $max) { my $max2 = $max - 1; if ($line =~ s/^(.{0,$max2}\S)\s+//s) { # Break at space. push(@lines, $1); } else { # No space. $line =~ s/^(.{0,$max})//s; push(@lines, $1); } # Check if remainder needs to be broken. redo; } else { # No need to break. push(@lines, $line); } } return join("\n", @lines) . "\n"; }
Of course, I could very simply rewrite the 'if' as a 'while' to eliminate the 'redo'.
sub line_wrap { my ($str, $max) = @_; my $line; my @lines; foreach $line (split($BRK, $str)) { # # Collapse spaces and tabs. # s/\s+/ /g; while (length($line) > $max) { my $max2 = $max - 1; if ($line =~ s/^(.{0,$max2}\S)\s+//s) { # Break at space. push(@lines, $1); } else { # No space. $line =~ s/^(.{0,$max})//s; push(@lines, $1); } } push(@lines, $line); } return join("\n", @lines) . "\n"; }
In short
redo unless ...;
replaces a nested loop, possibly making it easier to read.
In reply to Insert new items into foreach list:
by ikegami
in thread Useful uses of redo?
by kvale
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