[NTLUG:Discuss] Perl help

[Stuart Johnston]

Rick Renshaw wrote:
> --- Stuart Johnston <saj at thecommune.net> wrote:
> 
>> In this case you would want a 'return'.  I changed your sub calls around 
>> a little too.  If you were not in a sub, you would want to use 'next'.
>>
>>
>> sub nextcut {
>>      my $path = '/path/to/files/';
>>      for $n (31000 .. 31500) {
>>          if (! -e "$path/$n.wav" ) {
>>                print "$n.wav\n";
>>                return $n;
>>          }
>>      }
>> }
> 
> Next wouldn't do anything useful in a loop at the end like the return is in the above sub.  Next
> just skips the rest of the loop and starts the next iteration.  I think you meant last, which ends
> the loop.

Yes, yes I did.  Thanks for the clarification.