Breaking out of a 2-level FOR loop

[Dennis M. Marks]

I have a 3 level array. First level is a list of trains. Second level
are items about the train. Third level is where there are multiples of
the second level item.

The search will be of myArray[i][2][j]

i is train entry, 2 is the item i'm searching and j are the individial
items.

My search will be FOR (i=0 etc , FOR (j= 0 etc.
The limit will be the number of items in the array level. How do I
break out of the FOR loops when I find a match? Most languages have an
EXIT statement. It there one in javascript? I must break out of 2 FOR
loops when I find a match. It would be a waste of time to complete the
loops.

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[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

"Dennis M. Marks" <de******@dcsi.net> writes:

My search will be FOR (i=0 etc , FOR (j= 0 etc.
The limit will be the number of items in the array level. How do I
break out of the FOR loops when I find a match?
You use the "break" statment. It breaks out of the closest enclosing
loop or switch (for, while, do or switch statements).

---
for (...) {
if (whatever) {break;}
}
---
Most languages have an EXIT statement. It there one in javascript?
Yep, break.
I must break out of 2 FOR loops when I find a match. It would be a
waste of time to complete the loops.

For that you need a label on the outer loop, and a label argument
to the break command.

---
OuterLoopLabel:
for(...) {
for(...) {
if (whatever) {break OuterLoopLabel;}
}
}
---

That should be enough escaping for this problem.

If you ever need a quick escape from nested function calls, you can
use exceptions:
---
function recursion(n) {
if (n<10) {recursion(n+1);}
else {throw n;}
}

try {
recursion(0);
} catch (n) {
alert(n);
}
---

/L
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[Douglas Crockford]

> I have a 3 level array. First level is a list of trains. Second level

are items about the train. Third level is where there are multiples of
the second level item.

The search will be of myArray[i][2][j]

i is train entry, 2 is the item i'm searching and j are the individial
items.

My search will be FOR (i=0 etc , FOR (j= 0 etc.
The limit will be the number of items in the array level. How do I
break out of the FOR loops when I find a match? Most languages have an
EXIT statement. It there one in javascript? I must break out of 2 FOR
loops when I find a match. It would be a waste of time to complete the
loops.

You could just read the manual, you know.
For statements can have labels.

outer: for (...) {
....
break outer;
....
}

http://www.crockford.com/javascript/survey.html

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <17*************************@dcsi.net>, seen in
news:comp.lang.javascript, Dennis M. Marks <de******@dcsi.net> posted at
Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:32:30 :-

I must break out of 2 FOR
loops when I find a match.

To avoid use of a label, you can put the FOR loops in a function and use
return.

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