Question

How can i use a ‘break’ statement within a for-loop which continues form a specified label?

ex;

outer: for(int i = 0;i<[arABFBmatches count];i++){
    for(int i = 0;i<[arABFBmatches count];i++){
        //
        break _____;
    }
}

How to break to outer?

Answer 1

Hard to say from your question. I’d interpret it that you want to skip the rest of the iterations of the inner loop and continue the outer loop?

for (int i = 0; i < [arABFBmatches count]; i++) {
    for (int j = 0; j < [arABFBmatches count]; j++) {
        if (should_skip_rest)
            break; // let outer loop continue iterating
    }
}

Note that I changed the name of your inner loop invariant; using i in both is inviting insanity.

If you want to break from both loops, I wouldn’t use a goto. I’d do:

BOOL allDoneNow = NO;
for (int i = 0; i < [arABFBmatches count]; i++) {
    for (int j = 0; j < [arABFBmatches count]; j++) {
        if (should_skip_rest) {
            allDoneNow = YES;
            break;
        }
    }
    if (allDoneNow) break;
}