BREAK

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The BREAK statement provides a convenient way to immediately exit from a loop (FOR, WHILE, REPEAT), CASE, or SWITCH statement without resorting to GOTO statements.

Note
BREAK is an IDL statement. For information on using statements, see Program Control (Application Programming).

Syntax

BREAK

Examples

This example exits the enclosing WHILE loop when the value of i hits 5.

PRO count
I = 0
PRINT, 'Initial value: ', i
WHILE (1) DO BEGIN
   i = i + 1
   IF (i eq 5) THEN BREAK
   PRINT, 'Loop value: ', i
ENDWHILE
PRINT, 'END VALUE: ', I
END
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Version History


5.4	Introduced