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Is there a way to halt a for-loop without breaking?

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ZeroBits 142
9 years ago

I can't find a function for this on the wiki, I need it for a user-input system on my WIP hacking game.

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BlueTaslem 18071 Moderation Voter Administrator Community Moderator Super Administrator
9 years ago

break is the way to break a loop. return also works (but obviously has extra functionality of completely exiting a function block instead of just a loop and giving a [set of] value[s]).

The only other way to prevent a loop from continuing is to cause its condition to be false, but in the context of a for loop that is essentially impossible.

I suppose a third way to stop it would be an error. Those break execution all the way up to the next protected call (pcall, ypcall, xpcall), which is obviously a horrible way to manage your code but maybe something interesting could come of it.

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Thanks for the answer, I just thought of a horridly ugly way to fix my problem. it won't be pretty, but it might work. ZeroBits 142 — 9y
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What is your problem? Maybe I could provide some insight BlueTaslem 18071 — 9y
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I fixed it. ZeroBits 142 — 9y
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