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TheEndless
Roku Guru
12 years ago

BrightScript wishlist (Continue, Swith/Select, etc.)

"renojim" wrote: "TheEndless" wrote: "NewManLiving" wrote: Is there a continue or a loop Statement that I missed as well. Now that would save you a bunch of if statements No "continue" that I...
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NewManLiving
Visitor
12 years ago
My remark about if statements was meant to be cumulative
In respect to an application. There are times that
Conditions prevail esp in event loops where you
Don't want something to occur under certain
Conditions. In those cases you may have to wrap
Successive statements in an if statement. Where it would
Be easier to just to use continue. As stared this
Can be done with a jump and is how the underlying
Instructions are executed but I'm not comfortable with
Goto for some reason
    • renojim's avatar
      renojim
      Community Streaming Expert
      2 years ago

      There's no break, but there is "exit while".  Are you saying that break is supported? 

      This is a ten year old thread, so a lot has changed.

      • JesUltra's avatar
        JesUltra
        Streaming Star
        2 years ago

        I was merely saying that I did not find mention of "BREAK" in the current BrightScript documentation.

        You are right to point out that "EXIT FOR" and "EXIT WHILE" is how you break out of a loop.  So it seems that modern BrightScript indeed has support for both continue/break, but does not yet directly support any select/switch kind of branching.

        I realize this is a very old thread, but Google sent me here when I was looking for the equivalent of continue/break for BrightScript, so I feel it is worth updating the thread with the recent relevant information.