From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2008-10-31T01:58:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Exceptions & loops

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Daniel Malcolm Webb [dbw]
<dbw@aber.ac.uk> wrote:
> I've had a look for exception in here but nothing quite does the job.
>
> (10264..10300).each do |i|
>  ...
>
>  begin
>    question_text = res_q[0][1].gsub('"', "'")
>  rescue Exception=>g
>  end
>
>  ...
> End
>
> If this query throws and exception is there a way of aborting the
> current loop i.e. the loop for record #10267 but then loop again for
> #10268?
> At the moment it just comes out of
> question_text = res_q[0][1].gsub('"', "'")
> and goes onto the next operation within the loop, which is fantastic,
> but not quite what I want

You want the "next" keyword, which directly jumps to the next iteration
in the loop. Take a look also at break, redo and retry for other cases.

irb(main):001:0> %w{a b c d e}.each do |w|
irb(main):002:1* next if w=="c"
irb(main):003:1> puts w
irb(main):004:1> end
a
b
d
e


Jesus.