Perl Breaking out of an If statement

Question

This one just came up: How do I break out of an if statement? I have a long if statement, but there is one situation where I can break out of it early on.

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Answer 1

Keep your while loop so you can use last but also make sure that the loop is executed at most once

my $loop_once = 1;
while ( $loop_once-- and some_condition ) {
    blah, blah, blah
    last if $some_other_condition; # No need to continue...
    blah, blah, blah
    ...
}