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> only understandable by perlmonks" ;-)

I disagree because state-machines need a lot of documentations and flip/flop is well documented in perldoc.

At worst you'll just need to add a link in the comments.

> just like to write easy-to-read easy-to-port examples.

So consequently you use goto instead of loop constructs, to keep it easily portable to assembler? ;-)

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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Re^5: Extract Block Of Text From Log
by cavac (Parson) on Nov 23, 2018 at 12:14 UTC

    I very rarely use goto, but there are a few cases where it is the correct function to use.

    perl -e 'use MIME::Base64; print decode_base64("4pmsIE5ldmVyIGdvbm5hIGdpdmUgeW91IHVwCiAgTmV2ZXIgZ29ubmEgbGV0IHlvdSBkb3duLi4uIOKZqwo=");'