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simple for loop question - how do you exit?

Greg Snow

Thu, Apr 23, 2009 2:30 PM

To "break" out of a loop early, use the "break" command (or rethink your logic and use a different type of loop, often if you will be commonly leaving the loop, a while loop may make more sense than a for loop).

Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
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> I have a loop and an if statement in the loop.  once the if statement
> is true
> for 1 value in the loop i'd like to exit the loop.  is there a command
> to do
> this?  i know its going to be something like exit and i feel stupid
> asking
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