What is a neat way of breaking out of many for loops at once?

Question

Suppose I need to break out of three or four nested for loops at once at the occurence of some event inside the innermost loop. What is a neat way of doing that?

Answer 1

If you absolutely don't want to use goto, set all loop conditions to false:

int i, j, k;

for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
    for (j = 0; j < 100; j++) {
        for (k = 0; k < 100; k++) {
            if (k == 50) {
                i = j = k = INT_MAX;
                break;
            }
        }
    }
}

note: a smart optimizing compiler will turn the contents of the if in a jump to the end of the outer-most loop