redo - start this loop iteration over again

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# NAME

redo - start this loop iteration over again

# SYNOPSIS

redo LABEL

redo

# DESCRIPTION

The `redo` command restarts the loop block without evaluating the conditional again. The `continue` block, if any, is not executed. If the LABEL is omitted, the command refers to the innermost enclosing loop. Programs that want to lie to themselves about what was just input normally use this command:

        # a simpleminded Pascal comment stripper
        # (warning: assumes no { or } in strings)
        LINE: while (<STDIN>) {
            while (s|({.*}.*){.*}|$1 |) {}
            s|{.*}| |;
            if (s|{.*| |) {
                $front = $_;
                while (<STDIN>) {
                    if (/}/) {      # end of comment?
                        s|^|$front\{|;
                        redo LINE;
                    }
                }
            }
            print;
        }

`redo` cannot be used to retry 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 `redo` inside such a block will effectively turn it into a looping construct.

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

redo - start this loop iteration over again