Perl one-liner: how to skip to the next file in @ARGV

Question

I was thinking about how to "short circuit" reading a file within a perl -ne loop. If I hit some condition, I want to abandon the current file and proceed to the next one in @ARGV. This would be similar to GNU awk's handy nextfile command.

Something like this:

perl -ne 'do_something(); next_file if some_condition()' files ...

Playing around, I found that close ARGV achieves the "go to next file" goal.

Are there other, less magical, ways to accomplish this?

Answer 1

Nope, close ARGV is the right way to do this.

As noted by glenn jackman, this has the side effect of resetting your $. line counter (which normally continues incrementing across several files when using ARGV), so you may want to save and restore it:

my $line = $.;
close ARGV;
$. = $line;