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[Fighter]

In this situation of looping infinitely and parsing a lines in a file, I am required to break out of a few loops while being in the script, so exit is not an option. I have looked in the documentation and goto is there, although unfortunately? it seems to be for a newer PHP version than I have.

How would I break out of something like this, assuming it really is much more complex:

for($i = 0; $i <= 900; $i++) {

   foreach($second as $something) {

       switch($something) {

           case 'a' : $last = 'foo'; break;

           case 'b' : $last = 'bar'; break;

           case '...': break;break;somehow-break;

       }

   }

}

[Alexander]

One thing you may not be aware of, is that PHP addresses this limitation by adding break level modifier in their language construct.

The following should work:

for($i = 0; $i <= 900; $i++) { 
   foreach($second as $something) { 
       switch($something) { 
           case 'a' : $last = 'foo'; break; 
           case 'b' : $last = 'bar'; break; 
           case '...': break 3;
       } 
   }