From: Dan Doel <djd15@...>
Date: 2003-09-04T16:28:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Any way to advance to an iterator prematurely?

(1..30).each do |x|
    next if x == 15
    puts x
end

Kurt Euler wrote:

>All-
>
>In the code below, is there an way to put a condition just before <do a big bunch of stuff?> that will cause the iterator to advance to the next x (the next line in control.txt) WITHOUT doing <do a big bunch of stuff>. I thinking something like "if field[0] != "test" read_next_line_in_file". I'd
>rather not put <do a big bunch of stuff> in a giant if/end statement.
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