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Can you goto lines?

Jun 18, 2002, 10:27 AM
Andy
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Jun 18, 2002, 10:27 AM
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Can you goto lines?
JUst wondering..In a perl script, can you just to specific lines, like in Basic you can type:

goto 123 (where 123 is the line number).

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Jun 18, 2002, 10:36 AM
Paul
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Jun 18, 2002, 10:36 AM
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Re: [Andy] Can you goto lines? In reply to
http://www.perldoc.com/...1/pod/func/goto.html

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Jun 18, 2002, 3:34 PM
Alex
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Jun 18, 2002, 3:34 PM
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Re: [Andy] Can you goto lines? In reply to
But this is almost always a bad thing to do, and indicates a breakdown in modular programming. =)

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Jun 18, 2002, 5:36 PM
Paul
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Guess Jason had a good reason to use it in GForum though right ;)
Jun 18, 2002, 5:40 PM
Paul
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Jun 18, 2002, 5:40 PM
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Re: [Alex] Can you goto lines? In reply to
>>Guess Jason had a good reason to use it in GForum though right ;)<<

I'll let him off, it was because of autoloading. Smile