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MEL and Expressions

break

Sometimes you want to exit a loop immediately as soon as some condition is met. The break instruction exits a loop from any point in its block, bypassing the loop’s condition. Execution resumes at the next statement after the loop. You can use a break instruction with a while, do, or for loop.

This example finds the first value in a string array that is longer than 4 characters.

string $words[] = {"a","bb","ccc","dddd","eeeee","ffffff"}; 
string $long = ""; 
for ($i = 0; $i < size($words); $i++) { 
	if (size($words[$i]) > 4) { 
		$long = $words[$i]; 
		break; 
	} 
	print($words[$i] + " is too short...\n"); 
}; 
print($long + " is the first long word.\n");