SYNOPSIS<BREAK>
DESCRIPTION
The BREAK
statement exits the innermost enclosing looping
statement, such as WHILE
, SQL
, LOOP
, etc. It is
useful for exiting a long loop quickly when the remaining iterations
aren't needed.
EXAMPLE<TIMPORT $schema FROMFILE /tmp/mbox>
<!-- stop before today's messages: -->
<IF $Date gt "start of today">
<BREAK>
</IF>
... process current message ...
</TIMPORT>
CAVEATS
The BREAK
statement was added in version 1.0.855300000 19970206.
Note that unlike in C
, BREAK
does not exit a
SWITCH
statement.
SEE ALSOCONTINUE