From: Alvaro Perez <alvaro.pmartinez@...>
Date: 2007-11-19T20:25:06+09:00
Subject: Break a recursive loop

Hi there,

something that I think should not be very difficult, but i'm struggling
with:

  def find(name, where)
      for father in where
         if (father.name==name) then
             found = thing
             break
         else
             find(name, father.children)
         end
      end
      found
  end

I have an array with parent objects, some of them have children. I want
to find an object with the same name and return in, otherwise nil.

The problem is that, once I start searching inside the children of some
father, and I found what I'm looking for, I break the loop inside (array
father.children). But then the search continues in the level above. I
would like to break the complete search. How can it be done?

Thank you!!
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