From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2001-11-14T07:27:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25092] Re: exiting blox

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 07:19:05AM +0900, David Alan Black wrote:
> Hello --
> 
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Niko Schwarz wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> > is there a way to exit a block before time?
> > like:
> >
> > field.each { |el|
> >         if(el.alsacian?)
> >                 break #no, dont want anymore
> >         else
> >                 puts el
> >         end
> > }
> >
> > is there? (note: i want to exit it just for one el, of course)
> 
> Doesn't break do what you want?  Or am I confused about what
> it does?

break also stops any subsequent yields to the block.  I think Niko 
just wants to skip the rest of the block for that yield.

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