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How can I terminate the running of a program from within an iteration, but not leave the program?

EG, In this code:

IO.foreach("control.txt") { |x|
field = x.chop.split("\t", -1)
<Do stuff "A" here.>
<If some condition is met, leave this iteration BEFORE the end of control.txt file occurs and continue with stuff B>
}
<Do stuff "B" here.>
...
...
...
end


Thanks for your comments (and to those who assisted recently with the abort command).

-Kurt

You can use 'break':

dcarrera ~ $ cat control.txt
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
line 5
dcarrera ~ $ cat test.rb
IO.foreach("control.txt") do |x|
puts "Stuff A goes here: #{x}"
break if x =~ /3/
end
puts "Stuff B goes here"
dcarrera ~ $ ruby test.rb
Stuff A goes here: line 1
Stuff A goes here: line 2
Stuff A goes here: line 3
Stuff B goes here
dcarrera ~ $

Cheers,
Daniel.

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:23:20PM +0900, Kurt Euler wrote:
> All-
>
> How can I terminate the running of a program from within an iteration, but not leave the program?
>
> EG, In this code:
>
> IO.foreach("control.txt") { |x|
> field = x.chop.split("\t", -1)
> <Do stuff "A" here.>
> <If some condition is met, leave this iteration BEFORE the end of
> control.txt file occurs and continue with stuff B>
> }
> <Do stuff "B" here.>
> ...
> ...
> ...
> end
>
>
> Thanks for your comments (and to those who assisted recently with the abort command).
>
> -Kurt

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"Kurt Euler" <> wrote in message
>
> How can I terminate the running of a program from within an iteration, but
not leave the program?

Use break

> EG, In this code:

IO.foreach("control.txt") { |x|
field = x.chop.split("\t", -1)
<Do stuff "A" here.>
break if some_condition_is_met
}

<Do stuff "B" here.>