matching one time through a loop

Wed May 29 21:28:15 EDT 2002

On 30-May-2002 Corey G. wrote:
> I have a script that parses some email from a Maildir directory 
> and I am looking for the number 550.  I want to stop searching once 
> the first occurrence is found in order to save time and be efficient.  
> This sort of thing can be done in Perl using the "last" statement.  
> I achieved my goal by using a counter but it seems terribly inefficient.  
> Any ideas?
> 

um, 'break'?