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Perl Programming/Keywords/continue
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The continue keyword
continue is a flow-control statement, if followed by a BLOCK. In a BLOCK or BLOCK, each time before the conditional is to be evaluated, contents of BLOCK are executed. So, it can be used to increment a loop variable even after a next statement (that resembles to the continue statement of C and other languages).
The BLOCK may contain last, next, or redo commands, where last and redo show the same behaviour as if they had been called in the main block.
Syntax
continue BLOCK
continue
Examples
while (EXPRESSION) {
### possible redo
do_something;
} continue {
### possible next
do_something_else;
# go back the top to re-check the EXPRESSION
}
### possible last call
See also
next
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