How to break out of nested loops in Go?

Question

I have an outer and inner loop, each iterating over a range. I want to exit the outer loop when a condition is satisfied inside the inner loop.

I have a solution which works using two 'break's, one inside the inner loop and one inside the outerloop, just outside the inner loop (a very simplified case for demonstration):

package main

import (
    "fmt"
)

func main() {

    word := ""
    for _, i := range("ABCDE") {
        for _,j := range("ABCDE") {
            word = string(i) + string(j)
            fmt.Println(word)
            if word == "DC" {
                break
            }
        }
        if word == "DC" {
            break
        }
    }
    // More logic here that needs to be executed
}

Go Playground

There is no problem with this solution, but it just looks patched and ugly to me. Is there a better way to do this?

I can try and have another for conditional loop outside the outer loop in the previous solution and have a label and use continue with the label. But as you can see, this approach isn't any more elegant than the solution with break.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
)

func main() {

    word := ""

Exit:
    for word != "DC" {
        for _, i := range "ABCDE" {
            for _, j := range "ABCDE" {
                word = string(i) + string(j)
                fmt.Println(word)
                if word == "DC" {
                    continue Exit
                }
            }
        }
    }
    // More logic here that needs to be executed
}

Go Playground

I have seen similar questions here pertaining to other languages (C, C#, Python etc). But what I am really interested to see is whether there is any trick with Go constructs such as 'for select'.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51996175/how-to-break-out-of-nested-loops-in-go

Answer 1

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