Anadi Taylor wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have written a script that reads in information from a database: name,
> email, password and username.
> I am then searching through this information to match an email address
> entered by a user ( this script is web based ) against the email address
> pulled off the database. This all works fine except (ha ha - there is always
> a BUT !!! ) when I find the email address I am looking for i want to jump to
> the end of the 'while()' loop. I am sure this can be done but I just cant
> figure it out !!!
>
> my code, without the jump is:
>
> while (@dbdata = $sth1->fetchrow_array())
> {
> $dbname =$dbdata[0];
> $dbemail =$dbdata[1];
> $dbpwd =$dbdata[2];
> $dbusrname =$dbdata[3];
>
> ## check to see if emails match
> if ($usremail eq $dbemail)
> {
> $passcheck = "True";
> replyTo($usremail, $dbusrname, $dbpwd, $dbname);
> ## jump to the end of loop
last; # will do what you want :-)
perldoc -f last
/Stefan
>
> }
> }
>
> Also: the only reason I am having to pull all this data from the mySql
> database is because for some very strange reason mySql doent like the '@'
> and the '.' characters in a sql statement: I actually started with a SQL
> query like:
>
> SELECT name, email, password, username FROM members WHERE
> email='[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
>
> BUT - it really doesnt like this, any ideas why ???
>
> Thanks all for your valuable help and time
>
> Anadi
>
> You are just a dewdrop, and as you meditate the dewdrop starts slipping from
> the petals of the Lotus towards the ocean. When the meditation is complete,
> the dewdrop has disappeared into the ocean. Or you can say, the ocean has
> disappeared into the dewdrop.
>
> Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
>
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