|
|
sybperl-l Archive
Up Prev Next
From: Jim Anderson <jander at ml dot com>
Subject: Re: break statement
Date: Oct 13 1997 3:54PM
You've got a couple of problems here. First, if you realy want to
treat a number, e.g., 123, as a string, then you need to use 'eq' in
place of '=='. Second, use 'last' in place of 'break'.
Gayatri Krishnan sagely stated:
> Hi,
> Can someone help me with the 'break statement with in a 'foreach'
> loop???
>
> I've an array @a with numbers (123, 124, 125)
>
>
> foreach $i (0 .. $#a) {
> if ($e[$i] == "123") {
> $code = "A";
> }
> elsif ($e[$i] == "124") {
> $code = "B";
> break;
> }
> elsif ($e[$i] == "125") {
> $code = "C";
> }
> }
>
> Problem is the loop doesn't break when 'a' is 124... instead it goes
> thru all the conditions and $code gets assigned C.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> gayatri
>
--
Jim Anderson jander@ml.com
Consultant-at-large jander@jander.com
(212) 449-1598
|
