Re: GOTO statement. A better way?

[AReed]

As a matter of style, unnecessary negatives in conditional statements make code harder to read. If "#do nothing" really does mean that there's nothing to do, then this:

      if ($line !~ m/ALTER\sPROCEDURE\s/){
    #do nothing
      }
      else {
    goto here;
      }

would be more easily understood if written as:

      if ($line =~ m/ALTER\sPROCEDURE\s/) {
         last;
      }