Re^2: Can't "last" outside a loop block

last cant be used to exit blocks.

Wrong (well, half wrong ;-)

perl -wle '$x = 1; {$x = 2; last; $x = 3} print $x'
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The documentation for last states that

"last" cannot be used to exit a block which returns a value such as "eval {}", "sub {}" or "do {}"

but it can be used to exit all other loop blocks, even bare blocks. But it can not be used to exit if/elsif/else blocks.

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Re^3: Can't "last" outside a loop block by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Apr 02, 2009 at 15:00 UTC
...all of which is a pretext for the poor mans case/switch statement illustrated here A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply]