This should be a really easy question, and thus I probably shouldn't trouble the Monastery with it, but it's giving me hell. Super Search turned up nothing for me, suprisingly (probably bad searching technique). I can't figure out how to loop over a list and skip with next until an arbitrary string entered by the user matches the element. After that string is matched (should only happen once) we don't care about matching it any more, so basically all elements after the matching element are used. Here's some code to demonstrate the gist of what I want to do, but it doesn't work. 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Std;

my %switches;
getopts('s:', \%switches);
my @array = qw(the quick fox jumped over the lazy dog);

ITEM: foreach my $item (@array) {
    my $seen;
    if ($switches{s}) {
        ($seen = $switches{s} eq $item) if (!$seen);
        next ITEM if (!$seen);
    }
    print "$item\n";
}

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The string to match is the argument to the -s switch, by the way.

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In reply to skipping until an alement is matched by Amoe

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