For the completeness of the "next" topic, we have to introduce the two brothers of "next": "last" and "redo".

  1. next

    The "next" statement allows you to jump to the next iteration of the loop without executing the remaining statements of the current iteration. 
    foreach (1..10) {
    next if ($_ == 9);
    print("$_  ");
}

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    Here's what it looks like:

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10

    As you can see, 9 is missing - this is because when the value of $_ hits 9, Perl uses the "next" statement to skip to the next iteration of the loop, and so 9 never gets printed.

  2. last

    The "last" statement is used to exit the loop completely. 
    foreach (1..10) {
    last if ($_ == 9);
    print("$_  ");
}

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    And here's the output:

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

  3. redo

    And finally, the redo statement lets you restart a particular iteration of the loop: 
    foreach (1..10) {
    print("$_  ");
    if ($_ == 9 && $flag != 1) {
        $flag=1;
        redo;
    }
}

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    In this case, here's what you'll see:

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 10

In reply to Re: A few random questions from Learning Perl 3 by pg
in thread A few random questions from Learning Perl 3 by sulfericacid

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