Control Structures

last

• The last statement gives you a backdoor to get out of a given loop.
• The last statement works for the for, foreach, while, until and naked blocks (implied while forever loops).
• The last statement does not work for the if and do while / until blocks.
• Example:
  

  # Keep getting user inputs until user enters quit.
  while ( $nextVar = <STDIN> )
  {
      chomp $nextVar;
      if ( $nextVar eq "quit" )
      {
          last;
      }
  
      print "You entered $nextVar\n";
  }