"There's more than one way of doing it," says the cover of Programming Perl, the book co-written by Larry Wall, who wrote the language. He's right Ð there are usually many ways of doing the same thing. That's confusing for the newcomer, but great for the experienced practitioner. This module covers extra syntaxes for "if" and "while", and other loops and conditionals that use different keywords, or no keywords at all.
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Examples from our training material
| andor | and, or, &&, || - precendence |
| dice | Sample answer - rolling a die |
| dowhile | a while loop that runs at least once |
| dunt | A do ... until loop - reprompt until you get valid input. |
| forloop | Good and bad examples of a for loop |
| jump2 | Using a label in Perl to jump out of nested loops |
| jumps | demonstration of next, last and redo |
| jumps2 | Using a label in Perl to jump out of nested loops |
| lazyops | Lazy and and && operators |
| power | inverted until loop example |
| qc | while loop, rewritten as for loop |
| swit | Use of label to mimic a switch |
| tel2 | unless, and if and unless written in reverse |
| tel3 | Conditional operators "and" and "or" |
| tel4 | Usin the ? : operator instead of if and else |
| telegram | if and else example |
Opentalk forum discussions related to this topic
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Topics covered in this module
The variety of Perl.
Single statement conditionals.
Unless.
Conditional operators.
The until loop.
The for loop.
Single statement loops.
Breaking a loop.
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