MESSAGE
| DATE | 2004-11-20 |
| FROM | Billy
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Perl vs. PHP
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Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS wrote:
>>that is NOT THE SAME THING!
>>if $var matches blah and blah2, you're going
>>to execute sub1, sub2, and sub3. In a switch
>>statement, you only want ONE of these to happen.
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>BTW - what is the C standard for a switch????
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>Why do you need that break?
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> Like I thought...
>
The C switch will evaluate the expression (once),
and jump to a case that matches the expr. The case
usually ends in a break, but it doesn't have to. Other
case statements can be sprinkled in the code block.
The break is almost always there. So I used it in
my example.
Okay, sometimes it isn't there, and you get
lovely features like the phone system crash
of 1991-01-15.
What's the Perl alternative to that behavior?
You haven't offered one. 'last' is Perl's 'break'.
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