Hello monks, I've encountered a odd behaviuor in last, that I don't understand. It feels like a bug, but is it a feature i don't know. So I present the question here :). I have a test program. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# testing last
#
use strict;
use warnings;

my $i=0;
my $file="test.file";
foreach my $count (1 .. 10) {
  open (INF,"$file") or die "Unable to open '$file': $!";
  $i++ && m/2/ && last while (<INF>);
  close INF;
  $i=0;
  print "here:$count\n"
}
print "END($i)\n";
exit;

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And data-file for it. 
1
2
3
4
Now when running the program ($i is line-count). Last actually ends the foreach loop, even though it should (at least I think so) end the while loop. However, if the while loops line is changed to this. 
  m/2/ && $i++ && last while (<INF>);

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It prints correct output. So is this how it should work? My version of perl is 5.8.0 for RedHat 9.0.

In reply to Last oddity by Hena

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