How to leave the body of a lambda expression

Question

I have some list and I do list.ForEach( l => { ... something ...}). Now, on certain condition I need to stop iterating over the list, but break doesn't work - I get "Control cannot leave the body of an anonymous method or lambda expression" compilation error.

Any idea how to overcome that restriction?

Answer 1

A lambda expression works just like a method.
It can return whenever you want.

However, List.ForEach does not offer any way to prematurely stop the iteration.
If you need to break, you just use a normal foreach loop.

Answer 2

You cannot stop iteration from within a ForEach lambda since you do not have control of the outer loop that is calling the lambda. At that point why don't you use a regular foreach loop and a break statement - that would be much more readable for this case.