A colleague and I were trying to figure out a way of doing the equivalent of a "continue" statement within a VBScript "For/Next" loop.
Everywhere we looked we found people had no way to do this in VBScript without having nasty nestings, which is not an option for us since it is a quite big loop.
We came out with this idea. Would it work just as a "continue(to next iteration)"? Does anyone have any better workaround or improvement suggestion?
For i=1 to N
For workaroundloop = 1 to 1
[Code]
If Condition1 Then
Exit For
End If
[MoreCode]
If Condition2 Then
Exit For
End If
[MoreCode]
If Condition2 Then
Exit For
End If
[...]
Next
Next
Thanks for your comments
Your suggestion would work, but using a Do loop might be a little more readable.
This is actually an idiom in C - instead of using a goto, you can have a do { } while (0) loop with a break statement if you want to bail out of the construct early.
Dim i
For i = 0 To 10
Do
If i = 4 Then Exit Do
WScript.Echo i
Loop While False
Next
As crush suggests, it looks a little better if you remove the extra indentation level.
Dim i
For i = 0 To 10: Do
If i = 4 Then Exit Do
WScript.Echo i
Loop While False: Next