Question

I have a function in which I have a series of individual case statements.

case ... of
     ...
end,

case ... of
     ...
end,

...

etc.

I want to return from the function immediately when a particular case condition occurs in one of the case statements – so that the next case statement is not checked, and the function just exits/returns. How do I do that?

Answer 1

I would suggest you refactor to harness the full power of Erlang and its pattern matching abilities.

There isn’t a return operator. Also, a little known fact is you can do something like:

Return=case ... of

a case statement can have a “return” value.