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ColdFusion CFBreak
September 13, 2011Another pretty basic tag I'd like to bring up is the <cfbreak> tag. Short and sweet: This tag is used within a <cfloop> tag to break out of the loop. In this example, we're going to create a loop that starts with 1 and ends in 10, but breaks out of the loop once we hit 7. You can do this using the following code:
<cfloop index="i" from="1" to="10">
<cfoutput>#i#</cfoutput><br>
<cfif i eq 7>
<cfbreak>
</cfif>
</cfloop>
<cfoutput>#i#</cfoutput><br>
<cfif i eq 7>
<cfbreak>
</cfif>
</cfloop>
Here, the loop starts at 1 and loops until 7 is hit, then the <cfbreak> tag is called in the IF statement. This example would probably never be used in the real world, but gives you an idea of how the tag works.
Happy coding!