NEWB question!

[_0_05_]

altight, id look in my php book, but i lent it to my friend, so my question is as follows:
I have a loop, within a loop, and in the second loop, there is an if statement. Now, when/if this if statement happens to be true, i want to end the second loop, and do the next first loop. I know this makes no sense, so heres some basic code to illustrate my question:

foreach ($var as $value){          // first loop
   foreach ($var2 as $value2){   // second loop
      if ($value2 == $value){       // if statement
          ... stop second loop...;
     }
     else {
          ... keep checking second loop for match...;
     }
   }
}

my question is: how do i stop the second loop, and proceed with the first once the if statement has been true?

[Rodders]

Here's a link to the PHP website where the documentation is usually very good.....PHP.net

And to get you to the solution quicker......PHP - break command

[rheroux]

I believe break is what you're looking for. You can specify a numeric argument to tell it how many nested enclosing structures you want to break out of.

So, something like this may work:

foreach ($var as $value){          // first loop
   foreach ($var2 as $value2){   // second loop
      if ($value2 == $value){       // if statement
          break 2;
     }
     else {
          ... keep checking second loop for match...;
     }
   }
}

You can read more about break here.