IDL Reference Guide: Procedures and Functions

BREAK

The BREAK statement provides a convenient way to immediately exit from a loop (FOR, WHILE, REPEAT), CASE, or SWITCH statement without resorting to GOTO statements.

Syntax

BREAK

Examples

This example exits the enclosing WHILE loop when the value of i hits 5.

I = 0  
WHILE (1) DO BEGIN  
   i = i + 1  
   IF (i eq 5) THEN BREAK  
ENDWHILE