Question

[mjau]

Ok im just wondering what is break for in lua ?

[Kenix]

What you mean?

Operator break?

[TAPL]

break is for stop-finish-end loop

http://www.lua.org/pil/4.4.html

[mjau]

yeah kenix the operator and tapl i saw that but didnt understand what its useful for

[Kenix]

t = 
{ 
    'next'; 
    'some'; 
    'etc'; 
} 
  
for i,v in pairs( t ) do 
   if v == 'some' then 
     print ( i,'v == some' ) 
     break 
   end 
end 
  
print 'done' 
  
-- some code 

Output:

2,v == some

done

I think you understand.

You can test this example in lua demo.

http://www.lua.org/cgi-bin/demo