Chris Nandor wrote: >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. > And DoSearch should be $DoSearch I pressume. Andreas Marcel ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch