break - Abort looping command
break
break(1t) Tcl Built-In Commands break(1t)
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NAME
break - Abort looping command
SYNOPSIS
break
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DESCRIPTION
This command is typically invoked inside the body of a looping command
such as for or foreach or while. It returns a 3 (TCL_BREAK) result
code, which causes a break exception to occur. The exception causes
the current script to be aborted out to the innermost containing loop
command, which then aborts its execution and returns normally. Break
exceptions are also handled in a few other situations, such as the
catch command, Tk event bindings, and the outermost scripts of proce-
dure bodies.
EXAMPLE
Print a line for each of the integers from 0 to 5:
for {set x 0} {$x<10} {incr x} {
if {$x > 5} {
break
}
puts "x is $x"
}
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | runtime/tcl-8 |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
catch(n), continue(n), for(n), foreach(n), return(n), while(n)
KEYWORDS
abort, break, loop
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tcl-
core8.6.7-src.tar.gz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://www.tcl.tk/.
Tcl break(1t)