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

One way to do it is a state machine. But i would still use goto. It's much simpler. :)

state = 0;
while( state >= 0){
    switch(state){
        case 0: i = 0; state = 1; // for i = 0
        case 1:
            i++; 
            if (i < 100)   // if for i < 100 not finished
                state = 2; // do the inner j loop
            else
                state = -1; // finish loop
        case 2: j = 0; state = 3; // for j = 0
        case 3: 
            j++;
            if (j < 100)  // if j < 100 not finished
                state = 4 // do the inner k loop
            else
                state = 1; // go backt to loop i
            break;
        case 4: k = 0; state = 5;
        case 5:
            k++;
            if (k == 50){
                state = -1;
                break;
            }
            if (k < 100) // if k loop not finished
                state = 5; // do this loop
            else
                state = 3; // go back to upper loop
            break;
        default : state = -1;
    }
}