/* JavaScript Bible, Fourth Edition by Danny Goodman
John Wiley & Sons CopyRight 2001 */
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Breaking Out of Nested Labeled Loops</TITLE> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> var targetA = 2 var targetB = 2 var range = 5 function run1() { var out = document.forms[0].output out.value = "Running WITHOUT labeled breakn" for (var i = 0; i <= range; i++) { out.value += "Outer loop #" + i + "n" for (var j = 0; j <= range; j++) { out.value += " Inner loop #" + j + "n" if (i == targetA && j == targetB) { out.value += "**BREAKING OUT OF INNER LOOP**n" break }
} } out.value += "After looping, i = " + i + ", j = " + j + "n" } function run2() { var out = document.forms[0].output out.value = "Running WITH labeled breakn" outerLoop: for (var i = 0; i <= range; i++) { out.value += "Outer loop #" + i + "n" innerLoop: for (var j = 0; j <= range; j++) { out.value += " Inner loop #" + j + "n" if (i == targetA && j == targetB) { out.value += "**BREAKING OUT OF OUTER LOOP**n" break outerLoop } } } out.value += "After looping, i = " + i + ", j = " + j + "n" } </SCRIPT> </HEAD> <BODY> <H1>Breaking Out of Nested Labeled Loops</H1> <HR> <P>Look in the Results field for traces of these button scripts:</P> <FORM> <P><INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Execute WITHOUT Label" onClick="run1()"></P> <P><INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Execute WITH Label" onClick="run2()"></P> <P>Results:</P> <TEXTAREA NAME="output" ROWS=43 COLS=60> </TEXTAREA> </FORM> </BODY> </HTML>
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