Re: Break or continue an outer loop from an inner loop?

> On Dec 5, 2017, at 12:04 PM, David Harkness <david.h@highgearmedia.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Jeffry Killen <jekillen@prodigy.net> wrote: > The code starts a loop and inside the loop for each iteration > there is an inner loop. > > What I need to do is: depending on a conditional, I want to > tell the outer loop to continue from the inner loop: I.E. > stop the inner loop iteration and have the outer loop jump > to its next iteration. > > From the docs for continue [1]: > > continue accepts an optional numeric argument which tells it how many levels of enclosing > loops > it should skip to the end of. The default value is 1, thus skipping to the end of the > current loop. > > $i = 0; > while ($i++ < 5) { > echo "Outer<br />\n"; > while (1) { > echo "Middle<br />\n"; > while (1) { > echo "Inner<br />\n"; > continue 3; // <-- exit outermost while loop > } > echo "This never gets output.<br />\n"; > } > echo "Neither does this.<br />\n"; > } > > The same applies to break, even in a switch statement. > > On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > If you just want to stop the inner loop and continue the outer one, a simple break will do: > > for($i=0; $i<10; $i++) > { > for($j=0; $j<10; $j++) > { > echo "$i, $j\n"; > > if($j==6) > break; > } > } > > This example works, but it will break if the outer loop has more lines of code following the > inner loop. > > Cheers! > David > > [1] http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.continue.php > Thank you all for the responses. I do have code after the inner loop. I should have mentioned they are simple for loops. But my project is generating table markup for a year calendar. The outer loop produces the rows, while the inner loop produces the cells in each row, As I thought of this, it occurred to me that breaking out of the inner loop will produce a row with less than 7 cells. So I actually shouldn't do it here. I am having difficulty getting the month day numbers to fall on the correct week days. I would post what I have on my web site, but alas, my site doesn't have a hosting service at this time. (any suggestions for a reasonably priced, reliable, unix based hosting service in the US?) The process of contemplating and posting about issues is a process of clarifying the issues so solutions tend to emerge regardless of the responses. The responses are most often helpful. Thank you again for time and attention JK