note tlm <blockquote><em><p> By "bug", I presume you mean "bug in your code". The "exiting from the middle of an each-loop" has been discussed here before, and the behavior of Perl is as documented. </p></em></blockquote> <p>Sorry I gave the impression (probably through my choice of title) that I thought this was a bug in Perl. I did mean a bug in the snippet I presented. Perl's behavior is, as you say, amply documented. </p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-439528"> <p><small>the lowliest monk</small></p> </div></div> 518216 518225