Skips the rest of the current repeat loop and goes to the statement following the end repeat.
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Platforms: desktop, server, mobile OS: mac, windows, linux, ios, android Introduced: 1.0 Security:
# Syntax
exit repeat
# Examples
if x > 0 then exit repeat
# Description
Use the exit repeat control structure to skip the rest of a repeat loop.
**Form:** The exit repeat statement appears on a line by itself, anywhere inside a repeat control structure.
After an exit repeat statement, none of the remaining statements in the current loop is execute, and any more loops are skipped. The handler resumes execute at the first statement after the end of the repeat loop.
Usually, exit repeat is used within an if control structure, so that the loop stops if a condition is true and continues if the condition is false. This example reads a file in chunks and stops the loop when it encounters the end of file or if the file is empty:
constant kChunk = 1024 open file tFile for binary read repeat read from file tFile for kChunk put the result into tResult if tResult is empty or tResult is "eof" then ProcessFileChunk it end if if tResult is not empty then exit repeat end if end repeat close file tFile
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# See
- **keyword:** end repeat - **glossary:** handler, resume, statement, loop, execute, control structure - **control structure:** exit, next repeat, repeat, if