At 18.58 -0500 1998.05.20, Amitava Basu wrote: >I have a small program to access database file. It works fine >other then when I type in 'q' in the prompt, the program does >not quit. Can anyone suggest how do I get about it. Here is >the programme. >if (DoSearch eq 'q') { last } ^^^^ last() exits the current loop, not the program. exit() quits the program. -- Chris Nandor mailto:pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ MacPerl: Power and Ease (ISBN 1881957322), http://www.ptf.com/macperl/ %PGPKey = ('B76E72AD', [1024, '0824090B CE73CA10 1FF77F13 8180B6B6']) ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch