Breaking out of a for-in-a-for-in-a-for

Question

I have a question about how the break statement works. Take this:
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
     for (int j = 0; j < 10; j++) {
          for (int k = 0; k < 10; k++) {
               if (something) {
                    break;
}Am I right in saying this will only break out of the very inner for loop? What I want is a way to break out the very inner and second inner for loops, but NOT the outer. Is there a way to do this? Thanks!

Answer 1

Darryl.Burke wrote:
I would prefer to factor that out into its own method.private void method() {
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < 10; j++) {
for (int k = 0; k < 10; k++) {
if (something) {
return;
}db(Being not bright enough to think in three dimensions concurrently, let alone four) I hate deep-nested-loops.
class Cube ....
  private boolean contains(T target) {
    for (int y=0; y<NUM_ROWS; y++) {
      if (rowContains(target, y)) return true;
  private boolean rowContains(T target, int y) {
    for (int x=0; x<NUM_COLS; x++) {
      if (colContains(target, y, x)) return true;
    return false;
  private boolean colContains(T target, int y, int x) {
    for (int z=0; z<CELL_SIZE; z++) {
      if (cube[y][x][z].equals(target)) return true;
    return false;
  }... and hows about a CellVisitor to encapsulate all that nasty repeated for-x-for-y-for-z code.... a tad slower but (unless you're algoracing) who really gives a flying toss.
Just another alternative.
;-) Keith.