=over =item redo LABEL =item redo The C command restarts the loop block without evaluating the conditional again. The C block, if any, is not executed. If the LABEL is omitted, the command refers to the innermost enclosing loop. This command is normally used by programs that want to lie to themselves about what was just input: # a simpleminded Pascal comment stripper # (warning: assumes no { or } in strings) LINE: while () { while (s|({.*}.*){.*}|$1 |) {} s|{.*}| |; if (s|{.*| |) { $front = $_; while () { if (/}/) { # end of comment? s|^|$front\{|; redo LINE; } } } print; } C cannot be used to retry a block which returns a value such as C, C or C, and should not be used to exit a grep() or map() operation. Note that a block by itself is semantically identical to a loop that executes once. Thus C inside such a block will effectively turn it into a looping construct. See also L for an illustration of how C, C, and C work. =back