Call break in nested if statements

Question

I have the following situation:

IF condition THEN       IF condition THEN          sequence 1     ELSE         break //?       ENDIF     ELSE         sequence 3     ENDIF 

What is the result of the break statement? Does it break the outer if statement? Because this is what I actually need.

Answer 1

If you label the if statement you can use break.

breakme: if (condition) {     // Do stuff      if (condition2){         // do stuff     } else {        break breakme;     }      // Do more stuff } 

You can even label and break plain blocks.

breakme: {     // Do stuff      if (condition){         // do stuff     } else {        break breakme;     }      // Do more stuff } 

It's not a commonly used pattern though, so might confuse people and possibly won't be optimised by compliers. It might be better to use a function and return, or better arrange the conditions.

( function() {    // Do stuff     if ( condition1 ) {        // Do stuff     } else {        return;    }     // Do other stuff }() );