in reply to Test break, but still doing

Forgive me if I've completely misunderstood your question, but why not just shove the next into the if-block?:

if ($sth->rows >= 1) {       
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare("UPDATE artists SET email=? WHERE alias=?"
+);
    $sth->execute($email[$artistkey], $artist_alias[$artistkey]);
    next;
}

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Re: Re: Test break, but still doing
by Coplan (Pilgrim) on Feb 21, 2001 at 11:32 UTC
    If I stuck next; at the end of the if loop, that breaks the if loop, would it not? It's the for loop that I want to break. --Coplan
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      Did you try it? next doesn't apply to if-blocks, it applies to the enclosing loop-block (for or while, or a naked block which is a loop executed once) ... if-blocks are not loops. Similarly for redo and last.

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        And if you do have nested loops, you can always break out of the one that you want by using labels... 
        LAB_1:
  while ([cond1]) {

LAB_2:
    while ([cond2]) {
      next LAB_1 if [cond3];
    }
  }
        As archon says, its all there in the perlsyn page.
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