From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2007-10-14T11:08:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Can you terminate an each_line statement.

Jayson Williams wrote:
> Is there a way to terminate an each_line iteration before it iterates
> through every line? For instance:
> 
> file = open(url)
> 
> file.each_line{|line|
>      found = true if if line.include?('string')
>      break if found == true
>      }
> 
> Is it possible to to break out of the each_line statement if found is 
> true?


File.open("data.txt", "w") do |file|
  (1..5).each do |i|
    file.puts("line #{i}")
  end
end


File.open("data.txt") do |file|
  file.each_line do |line|
    puts line
    break
  end
end

--output:--
line 1
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