Equivalent VB keyword for 'break'

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I just moved over to the Visual Basic team here at work.

What is the equivalent keyword to break in Visual Basic, that is, to exit a loop early but not the method?

For the other way around, in C#: *[C# loop - break vs. continue](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6414/c-sharp-loop-break-vs-continue/6417#6417)* — Peter Mortensen, Jun 24 '17 at 17:39

John · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-20T09:07:23.560

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In both Visual Basic 6.0 and VB.NET you would use:

depending on the loop type. See Exit Statements for more details.

edited Mar 20 '18 at 09:07

answered Aug 08 '08 at 07:13

John

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Also on a related note, "Continue" will allow you to skip to the next iteration in a for loop. – StingyJack Mar 03 '09 at 17:08
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@StingyJack Worth noting that `Continue` is only available in VB.Net, not VB6 – MarkJ Sep 19 '11 at 10:47
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`Exit While` is not valid in VB7...use convert from `While...Wend` to `Do While...Loop` and an `Exit Do` will then work. – Merk Sep 17 '13 at 20:24
@Merk Exit While is documented here - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/language-reference/statements/exit-statement do you have document on when it is not supported? – John Mar 20 '18 at 09:08
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@StingyJack In older VB you can use `Goto ` and add a label at end of loop to use instead of continue. This can imo give pretty nice statements like `Goto NextDataEntry`. – dekuShrub Jul 22 '21 at 11:50
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@dekuShrub you can use GoTo in .net languages also, but there is usually a better alternative, like making NextDataEntry() into a function – StingyJack Jul 22 '21 at 12:25
Ah, maybe I should have mentioned @MarkJ instead of you. I just wanted to provide a way of doing it in older VB :) – dekuShrub Jul 22 '21 at 12:29
Yes, I support both! `GoTo` in VB6 can be an OK way to work around the absence of the `Continue` statement. Or creating a function can work well too. – MarkJ Jul 27 '21 at 16:28
Wow, this comment conversation has been going on more than 10 years! Can't believe I only just upvoted @StingyJack's comment from 2009 – MarkJ Jul 27 '21 at 16:29

score 7 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 07 '16 at 17:46

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In case you're inside a Sub of Function and you want to exit it, you can use :

Exit Sub

or

Exit Function

edited Feb 07 '16 at 17:46

Markus Safar

answered Apr 15 '13 at 19:08

Ayman El Temsahi

Useful answer, but not really in the context of the question as that's what they explicitly said they didn't want to do. – Deanna Apr 16 '13 at 10:40

score 4 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 07 '16 at 17:46

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Exit [construct], and intelisense will tell you which one(s) are valid in a particular place.

edited Feb 07 '16 at 17:46

Markus Safar

answered Aug 08 '08 at 08:37

Eric Haskins

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This should have been just a comment of the above answer (John's answer). – Anonymous Pi Mar 01 '14 at 03:21

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