in reply to perl -pl with next?

C:\>perl -MO=Deparse -pl -e "next if /bala/;s/([^:]+)([^:]+)/$2$1/" fi +le.txt BEGIN { $/ = "\n"; $\ = "\n"; } LINE: while (defined($_ = <ARGV>)) { chomp $_; next if /bala/; s/([^:]+)([^:]+)/$2$1/; } continue { print $_; } -e syntax OK
See that continue in there (also documented in perlrun)? Know what it does? You should try goto LINE.

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