break within a nested loop

Hi, I just cant wrap my head around thsi one this morning... comapring arrays, adding duplicates to the aDup array, the break seems to beak out of both loops, not just the inner one.

code:

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for (var i = 0; i<aOld.length; i++) {

		for (var j = 0; j<aNew.length; j++) {

			if (aOld[i] == aNew[j]) {

				aNew[j] = "";// cleared as I only want one positive per aNew entry

				a = [i, aOld[i]];

				aDup.push(a);

				

				break;

			}

		}

	}

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How do I break only the inner loop, continuing with the outer loop?

break always breaks the current (latest) loop it is in, and not the parent loop.

in this example only the second loop (with the j's) is affected by the break.

code:

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for (i=0;i<10;i++) {

	for (j=0;j<10;j++) {

		if(j>1) { 

			trace("brk"+j);

			break; 

		};

		trace("j="+j);

	}

	trace("i="+i);

}

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Try tracing your 1st (i) loop to prove whether it is being stopped or not.

Cheers, Lexicon.. I posted simplified code, and have gone over my real code, and found the error.

Monday morning....... thanks for your help.