Question

Should be simple and quick: I want a C# equivalent to the following Java code:

orig: for(String a : foo) {   for (String b : bar) {     if (b.equals('buzz')) {       continue orig;     }   }   // other code comes here... } 

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Edit: OK it seems there is no such equivalent (hey – Jon Skeet himself said there isn’t, that settles it ;)). So the ‘solution’ for me (in its Java equivalent) is:

for(String a : foo) {   bool foundBuzz = false;   for (String b : bar) {     if (b.equals('buzz')) {       foundBuzz = true;       break;     }   }   if (foundBuzz) {     continue;   }   // other code comes here... } 

Answer 1

I don’t believe there’s an equivalent, I’m afraid. You’ll have to either use a boolean, or just ‘goto’ the end of the inside of the outer loop. It’s even messier than it sounds, as a label has to be applied to a statement – but we don’t want to do anything here. However, I think this does what you want it to:

using System;  public class Test {     static void Main()     {         for (int i=0; i < 5; i++)         {             for (int j = 0; j < 5; j++)             {                Console.WriteLine('i={0} j={1}', i, j);                if (j == i + 2)                {                    goto end_of_loop;                   }             }             Console.WriteLine('After inner loop');             end_of_loop: {}         }     } } 

I would strongly recommend a different way of expressing this, however. I can’t think that there are many times where there isn’t a more readable way of coding it.