Re: breaking out of two loops

On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 20:19, Daniel Grace wrote: > "Lars Torben Wilson" <torben@php.net> wrote in message > > > > From the manual: > > > > break accepts an optional numeric argument which tells it how > > many nested enclosing structures are to be broken out of > > > > You can find this at http://www.php.net/break (which will > > take you > > to > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.break.php). > > > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > Torben > > That being said, break only breaks out of looping constructs. A break placed > within an if-block will break out of the loop around it. There isn't a > direct way to break out of an if-block alone (if that's your intent), though > this will work: Not true, as break works on switch() as well; switch() would be fairly useless without it. :) You are correct that it does not consider an if() block to be an enclosing loop, though. Torben > do { > if(condition) { > ... > ... > ... > break; > } > } while(0); > > -- Daniel Grace -- Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> http://www.thebuttlesschaps.com http://www.hybrid17.com http://www.inflatableeye.com +1.604.709.0506