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My favorite construct is the naked block, together with redo and last to trigger restart and exit:
{ blah; blah blah; last if $some_condition; more blah; more blah blah; redo if $some_other_condition; }
There... we've got a middle-exiting loop, guaranteeing at least one execution of the first part. Who says we don't have an easy "do-while" loop!

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker