How can I break out of two nested for loops in Objective-C?

Question

I have two for loops nested like this:

for(...) {
    for(...) {

    }
}

I know that there is a break statement. But I am con

Answer 1

The break statement only gets you out of the innermost loop. If you don't want the added overhead in code, memory and performance of a dedicated state variable, I recommend refactoring the code out into a function or method of its own, and using return to get out of all the loops:

void do_lots_of_work(void)
{
  int i, j;

  for(i=0; i<10 ; i++)
  {
    for(j=0;j< 10; j++)
    {
     ..
     ..
     if(disaster_struck())
      return; /* Gets us out of the loops, and the function too. */
    }
  }
}