> I'm writing perl program that needs to run continuously.
> Does anyone have a suggestion of what kind of looping
> mechanism I should use?
>
> Also, I'd like to know if there are any preferred ways
> to break the loop.
MAIN_LOOP:
while (1) {
# maybe do some stuff here
last MAIN_LOOP if ($i_gotta_get_out);
# maybe do some other stuff here
}