Question

I’m trying to break out of a loop if a certain condition is true. My code works fine until I try and add the break in. The intellisense error in VS2010 and IE8 when running both tell me I cant break outside of a loop, but I don’t think I am.

I’m totally confused so hoping someone can point out something obvious I’m overlooking!

var value1 = "hello"; 

$.each(myJsonObject.SomeCollection, function () {

    if (value1 == this.value2) {
        alert("Found it!");
        exitFlag = true;
    }

    if (exitFlag) break;
});

Answer 1

jQuery might not be using a loop for the .each() function. Maybe returning false might work (in Python it does):

var value1 = "hello"; 

$.each(myJsonObject.SomeCollection, function () {

    if (value1 == this.value2) {
        alert("Found it!");
        exitFlag = true;
    }

    if (exitFlag) return false;
});