> Much to my amazement, do() in perl is > a STATEMENT BLOCK and not a loop!
But that doesn't mean that you can't use it like one. In Perl you can use for/while/if/unless after a statement... print "Blue" if $x == 1; print ++$x while $x < 10; The "do" lets you turn the for into a do-for, if into do-if, while into do-while... etc. In other words it lets you use a block instead of just a statement like in the examples above. So it still does what you expect... and then adds some functionaly beyond that. Rob -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Westman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 5:47 PM To: beginners Subject: Someone DO explain this to me! In other languages, such as C, there is little difference between a while() loop and a do-while() loop. The only difference of course being that that do-while() loop will always execute at least once (test after), while the while-loop does a test before.... Much to my amazement, do() in perl is a STATEMENT BLOCK and not a loop! Yet the while() construct is a loop. ________________________________________________ $ perldoc -f do "do BLOCK" does not count as a loop, so the loop control statements "next", "last", or "redo" cannot be used to leave or restart the block. See the perlsyn manpage for alternative strategies. ________________________________________________ This seems odd to me. Yes, I know perl is not C or java or .... Thanks......... -Jeff __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
