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Perl Programming/Keywords/until

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The until keyword

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until is the statement that uses the EXPRESSION, called the condition, to loop until the condition is false. It is the opposite of the while statement.

Syntax

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  until EXPRESSION

Examples

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The code
$i = 5;
print $i++ while $i <= 10;
$j = 5;
print $j++ until $j >  10;
prints the same twice:


See also

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