Maybe could we start to write perlgolftut.pod :)

foreach $person (@names) {
        print "$person\n";
        last if $person=~/Dr /;
}

- reduce the length of variables names
foreach $p (@n) {
        print "$p\n";
        last if $p=~/Dr /;
}

- for and foreach are equivalent, put these \s away, and the last semicolon 
too
for$p(@n){print"$p\n";last if $p=~/Dr /}

- use implicit variables (perlvar)
for(@n){print"$_\n";last if/Dr /}

- use command-line arguments (perlrun)
#perl -l
for(@n){print;last if/Dr /}

- use shortcuts (perlop)
#perl -l
for(@n){print;/Dr /&&last}
or
print&&/Dr /&&last for@n

Jean-Pierre 

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