Re: Re: ending this loop

Thanks, I got it working with this:

while(<>){
 if(/dick/){
    print "you said dick!\n";
  } else {
   print "you didn't say dick, hah, what a dick!\n";
 }
 last;
}
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Thanks again,
jrbush82

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Re: Re: Re: ending this loop by suaveant (Parson) on Aug 10, 2001 at 21:07 UTC
And if you did the following... `while(<>){ if(/dick/){ print "you said dick!\n"; last; } else { print "you didn't say dick, hah, what a dick!\n"; } }` [download] it would keep waiting for input until it got 'dick' - Ant - Some of my best work - Fish Dinner	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: ending this loop by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Aug 10, 2001 at 22:26 UTC
That will always quit after the first pass. So why do you have a loop at all? If that "works", what you really want is just: `$_= <>; if(/dick/){ print "you said dick!\n"; } else { print "you didn't say dick, hah, what a dick!\n"; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]