How to break out of two nested for loops?

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Mon Jan 21 21:08:01 EST 2002


In article <shfp4uk9mhavveieacp0q2vjvuahn5dif6 at 4ax.com>,
Dale Strickland-Clark  <dale at riverhall.NOTHANKS.co.uk> wrote:
>Tom Jenkins <tjenkins at devis.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>well an easy way to break out of n loops is using an exception.
>
>This solution keeps cropping up but, IMHO, using an *exception* for
>something that isn't an exception is just as obscure, misleading and
>awkward as a goto.

That's an attitude.  It's an incorrect attitude, but it's one you share
with a fair number of people.  You might want to check up on the
workings of the for loop.
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