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delayedinsanity · 04-22-2008, 05:07 PM

Is there any way, say if you were using curly braces to organize your code into blocks, ie;

PHP Code:


			
function somecall() {

$var = "somevar";



    {

     if ($then) { do(); }

     while (!$crashed) { crash(); }

    }



}

can you break out of those blocks like you can break out of a loop? Dependent of course on something evaluating to true, say halfway through the block there's an if statement that checks a value and if it's true, I don't want to process the rest of the block.

This is for purely aesthetic reasons at this point, I'm trying to create a block of if statements that will look more like a switch statement than a spaghetti mess of if's and else if's.

PHP Code:


			
{

  if (empty($value)) { dothis(); break; }

  if (!ctype_alpha($value)) { dothis(); break; }

  if (strcasecmp($value, $othervalue)) { dothis(); break; }

}

-m

04-22-2008, 05:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
delayedinsanity is cute and cuddly Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Vegas, Baby Posts: 963 Thanks: 31	Breaking out of a... not a loop. Is there any way, say if you were using curly braces to organize your code into blocks, ie; PHP Code: `function somecall() { $var = "somevar"; { if ($then) { do(); } while (!$crashed) { crash(); } } }` can you break out of those blocks like you can break out of a loop? Dependent of course on something evaluating to true, say halfway through the block there's an if statement that checks a value and if it's true, I don't want to process the rest of the block. This is for purely aesthetic reasons at this point, I'm trying to create a block of if statements that will look more like a switch statement than a spaghetti mess of if's and else if's. PHP Code: `{ if (empty($value)) { dothis(); break; } if (!ctype_alpha($value)) { dothis(); break; } if (strcasecmp($value, $othervalue)) { dothis(); break; } }` -m