How to return from a $.each operation? (jQuery)

Question

Example:

var t = $.each(templos_cache, function(f,g){
 $.each(g.requer, function(h,j){
  if (parseFloat(g.id) == id){
   alert(j.nome); // OK, return 'afrodite'.
   return j.nome; // wrong, return [Object object].
  }
  });
  return '';
 });

Looking at the code we can see the problem... i can do a set in a variable out of scope but i think that can exist some more elegant way to do this.

Answer 1

To break out of $.each(), simply return false; from the callback function. As quoted from the jQuery documentation:

We can break the $.each() loop at a particular iteration by making the callback function return false. Returning non-false is the same as a continue statement in a for loop; it will skip immediately to the next iteration.

Edit:

Upon realising you may want to return a value, you could simply pass an object to the callback function as this is passed by reference. See How to append a string value during assignment in Javascript? - this isn't at all any more elegant though, so I'd stick with just setting a variable outside of $.each as colinmarc said.