Perl goto Statement

The Perl goto statement is the jump statement. It is used to transfer control by jumping to other label inside a loop.

There are three goto forms:

goto LABEL:

It jumps to the statement labeled with LABEL and resumes normal execution from there.

goto EXPR:

It is a generalization of goto LABEL. The expression returns a label name and then jumps to that labeled statement.

goto &NAME:

For currently running subroutine it substitutes a call to the named subroutine.

Syntax of Perl goto statement is as follows:

Perl goto Statement Example

Let’s see a simple example to use goto statement in Perl language.

Output:

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