next - iterate a block prematurely

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# NAME

next - iterate a block prematurely

# SYNOPSIS

next LABEL

next

# DESCRIPTION

The `next` command is like the `continue` statement in C; it starts the next iteration of the loop:

        LINE: while (<STDIN>) {
            next LINE if /^#/;      # discard comments
            #...
        }

Note that if there were a `continue` block on the above, it would get executed even on discarded lines. If the LABEL is omitted, the command refers to the innermost enclosing loop.

`next` cannot be used to exit a block which returns a value such as `eval {}`, `sub {}` or `do {}`, and should not be used to exit a `grep()` or `map()` operation.

Note that a block by itself is semantically identical to a loop that executes once. Thus `next` will exit such a block early.

See also continue in the perlfunc manpage for an illustration of how `last`, `next`, and `redo` work.

next - iterate a block prematurely