NAME

next - iterate a block prematurely

SYNOPSIS

next LABEL

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.