Dear Monks,

I have used a goto statement in the following bit of code. Is there a better way than this? <background> 

#! perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;

my @files;
my @List_of_commands; 
my $line;
my $file;

while (<*.sql>) {
  next if $_ eq 'Activate.sql'; 
  push (@files, $_);
}

my $line_number;

foreach (@files) {

  print $_;
  $file = $_;
  open (FILE, "<$file");
  
  $line_number = 0;
  
  while (<FILE>){
    my $line = $_;
    $line_number = $line_number +1;
    
    if ($line_number == 1){
      if ($line !~ m/ALTER\sPROCEDURE\s/){
    #do nothing
      }
      else {
    goto here;
      }
    }
 
    
    $line = $_;
    
    if ($line =~ m/INSERT INTO Message_pool/){
      #Do nothing
    }
    elsif ($line =~ m/CREATE TABLE\s([A-Z|a-z|_]{1,200})\s.{0,100}/) {
      
      my $table_name = $1;
      my $Command = "if exists (select 1 from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.table
+s where table_name = '".$table_name."') DROP TABLE ".$table_name."";
    
      push(@List_of_commands, $Command);
    }
    else {
      #Do nothing
    }
  }
 here:
}

my $outfile = "Outfile.txt";


foreach (@List_of_commands){
  
  open (OUTFILE, "+>>$outfile");
  print OUTFILE "$_\n"

}

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