"Lars Torben Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 15:54, Erik Price wrote:
> > Short and sweet:
> >
> > If I have an "if" statement inside a "switch" statement, how can I
> > "break" out of both blocks that I am in? Will one "break" end
> > everything? Or should I use one for each level deep that I am?
> >
> >
> > Erik
>
> From the manual:
>
> break accepts an optional numeric argument which tells it how
> many nested enclosing structures are to be broken out of
>
> You can find this at http://www.php.net/break (which will take you
> to http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.break.php).
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Torben
That being said, break only breaks out of looping constructs. A break placed
within an if-block will break out of the loop around it. There isn't a
direct way to break out of an if-block alone (if that's your intent), though
this will work:
do {
if(condition) {
...
...
...
break;
}
} while(0);
-- Daniel Grace
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