Hi,

This is for something at work which folks are anxiously waiting on!

I am using the perl DBI mod and in that mod, in this portion:

while ( $sth->fetch() )
{
     ....
}

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I want to break out of the while loop if a condition is met and the condition is very basic. If the string begins with "foo", I want the bloody thing to end and I am ~99% sure, it is not ending when the condition occurs (and the condition does occur).

I have:

while ( $sth->fetch() )
{
      chomp $x;
      last if ( $x =~ /^foo/ );
}

print "$x\n";

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It is printing everything, not just strings that begin with "foo." Might someone be able to volunteer why this is not working and what I need to do to get it to work?

Thank you...

Tony

In reply to getting out of a loop by o2bwise

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