If I wanted to do something like this:
collection.each do |i|
return nil if i == 3
..many lines of code here..
end
How would I get that effect? I know I could just wrap everything inside the block in a big if statement, but I'd like to avoid the nesting if possible.
Break would not work here, because I do not want to stop iteration of the remaining elements.
next inside a block returns from the block. break inside a block returns from the function that yielded to the block. For each this means that break exits the loop and next jumps to the next iteration of the loop (thus the names). You can return values with next value and break value.
#!/usr/bin/ruby
collection = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]
stopped_at = collection.each do |i|
break i if i == 3
puts "Processed #{i}"
end
puts "Stopped at and did not process #{stopped_at}"
In this instance, you can use break to terminate the loop early:
collection.each do |i|
break if i == 3
...many lines
end
...of course, this is assuming that you're not actually looking to return a value, just break out of the block.
break in Ruby — break 5 will cause each to return 5.
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break valuedidn't work for me, whilenext valueworked fine. Thanks a lot.nextandbreakare in no way specific to looping constructs, so the article you linked is very misleading (since it heavily implies the opposite). And my descriptions are definitely correct whennextandbreakare used inside blocks (note thatwhileandforare rarely, if ever, used in Ruby so 99% of uses ofnextandbreakare within blocks).