continue
- continue
When followed by a BLOCK,
continue
is actually a flow control statement rather than a function. If there is acontinue
BLOCK attached to a BLOCK (typically in awhile
orforeach
), it is always executed just before the conditional is about to be evaluated again, just like the third part of afor
loop in C. Thus it can be used to increment a loop variable, even when the loop has been continued via thenext
statement (which is similar to the Ccontinue
statement).last
,next
, orredo
may appear within acontinue
block;last
andredo
behave as if they had been executed within the main block. So willnext
, but since it will execute acontinue
block, it may be more entertaining.Omitting the
continue
section is equivalent to using an empty one, logically enough, sonext
goes directly back to check the condition at the top of the loop.When there is no BLOCK,
continue
is a function that falls through the currentwhen
ordefault
block instead of iterating a dynamically enclosingforeach
or exiting a lexically enclosinggiven
. In Perl 5.14 and earlier, this form ofcontinue
was only available when the"switch"
feature was enabled. See feature and Switch Statements in perlsyn for more information.