On Nov 4, K Pfeiffer said: >Gajo Csaba writes: >> Hi, I have a problem with SWITCH. I wrote this, I think >> it's clear to anzone what it should do: > >Just out of curiousity I typed in 'perldoc SWITCH' and 'perldoc -f SWITCH' >and found nothing. What is it? (the short answer is fine)
It is nothing. A "switch" statement in Perl can be written as the OP showed. "SWITCH" here is just a label. FOO: { if ($x == 1) { ...; last FOO; } if ($x == 2) { ...; last FOO; } ... } -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]