Nested jQuery.each() - continue/break

Question

Consider the following code:

    var sentences = [
        \'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.\',
        \'Vivamus aliquet nisl quis          


        

Answer 1

Labeled Break

outerloop:
$(sentences).each(function() 
{
    $(words).each(function(i) 
    {
        break; /* breaks inner loop */
    } 
    $(words).each(function(i)  
    {
        break outerloop; /* breaks outer loop */
    }
}

Answer 2

You should do this without jQuery, it may not be as "pretty" but there's less going on and it's easier to do exactly what you want, like this:

var sentences = [
    'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.',
    'Vivamus aliquet nisl quis velit ornare tempor.',
    'Cras sit amet neque ante, eu ultrices est.',
    'Integer id lectus id nunc venenatis gravida nec eget dolor.',
    'Suspendisse imperdiet turpis ut justo ultricies a aliquet tortor ultrices.'
];

var words = ['ipsum', 'amet', 'elit'];

for(var s=0; s<sentences.length; s++) {
    alert(sentences[s]);
    for(var w=0; w<words.length; w++) {
        if(sentences[s].indexOf(words[w]) > -1) {
            alert('found ' + words[w]);
            return;
        }
    }
}

You can try it out here. I'm not sure if this is the exact behavior you're after, but now you're not in a closure inside a closure created by the double .each() and you can return or break whenever you want in this case.

Answer 3

There are a lot of answers here. And it's old, but this is for anyone coming here via google. In jQuery each function

return false; is like break.

just

return; is like continue

These will emulate the behavior of break and continue.

Answer 4

Unfortunately no. The problem here is that the iteration happens inside functions, so they aren't like normal loops. The only way you can "break" out of a function is by returning or by throwing an exception. So yes, using a boolean flag seems to be the only reasonable way to "break" out of the outer "loop".

Answer 5

return true not work

return false working

found = false;
query = "foo";

$('.items').each(function()
{
  if($(this).text() == query)
  {
    found = true;
    return false;
  }
});

Answer 6

Confirm in API documentation http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.each/ say:

We can break the $.each() loop at a particular iteration by making the callback function return false. Returning non-false is the same as a continue statement in a for loop; it will skip immediately to the next iteration.

and this is my example http://jsfiddle.net/r6jqP/

(function($){
    $('#go').on('click',function(){
        var i=0,
            all=0;
        $('li').each(function(){
             all++;
             if($('#mytext').val()=='continue')return true;
             i++;
             if($('#mytext').val()==$(this).html()){
                 return false;
             }
        });
        alert('Iterazione : '+i+' to '+all);
    });
}(jQuery));