Is there a better way of exiting the loop than goto?

Question

I have a very large loop that loops a 1000 rows. I exit the loop if magic value 1 is found. If magic value 1 is not found but magic value 2 is found then the loop needs to skip to the beginning. Right now I am using a switch, some ifs and a goto. I have read that goto is not the best way. Is there a better way to make this work?

Answer 1

To exit a loop you can use the break statement, to go onto the next record you can use the continue statement.

for(int i = 0; i < 1000; i++)
{
    if(magicValue1)
       break;
    if(magicValue2)
       continue;
}

I AM NOT CONDONING THE USE OF THE GOTO STATEMENT I AM SIMPLY POINTING OUT A POSSIBLE USE CASE

You can use goto jump statement to start/exit a loop, however I would stay away from this option unless you are using nested looping. I think the goto statement still has its uses for optimizing, exiting cleanly ect.. but in general it is best to use it quite sparingly.

for(int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
{ 
  start:

  for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
  {
     if(magicValue1)
       goto end;
    if(magicValue2)
       goto start;
  }
}
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