I am working through a Javascript course and am currently learning about break statements in for loops. The course text says that I can instead write if/else statements instead of using the break statement to accomplish the same thing. I have a solution, but it was difficult to come up with and it seems like a rather inelegant solution too.
Code using the break statement:
var numsArray = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
// stipulation: do not print out elements with index value greater than 2
for (var i = 0; i < numsArray.length; i++) {
if (i > 2) {
console.log('FOR LOOP BROKEN');
break; // ends loop
}
console.log('current index:', i);
console.log('current element:', numsArray[i]);
console.log('==============');
}Code rewritten to only use if/else statements:
var numsArray = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
// stipulation: do not print out elements with index value greater than 2
for (var i = 0; i < numsArray.length; i++) {
if (i > 2) {
console.log('FOR LOOP BROKEN');
i = numsArray.length; // ends loop
} else {
console.log('current index:', i);
console.log('current element:', numsArray[i]);
console.log('==============');
}
}This works, but I feel like there should be a better way to make sure the loop doesn't run the statements after the if statement block. Is there?