Exit a while loop in VBS VBA

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Is there a method of exiting breaking a while in VBS VBA   Following code won t work as intended   num   0 while  num  lt  10       if  status    Fail   then         exit while     end if      num   num 1 wend

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VBScript s While loops don t support early exit  Use the Do loop for that   num   0 do while  num  lt  10    if  status    Fail   then exit do   num   num   1 loop

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I know this is old as dirt but it ranked pretty high in google   The problem with the solution maddy implemented  in response to rahul  to maintain the use of a While   Wend loop has some drawbacks  In the example given  num   0 While num  lt  10   If status    Fail  Then     num   10   End If   num   num   1 Wend   After status    Fail  num will actually equal 11  The loop didn t end on the fail condition  it ends on the next test  All of the code after the check still processed and your counter is not what you might have expected it to be   Now depending on what you are all doing in your loop it may not matter  but then again if your code looked something more like   num   0 While num  lt  10   If folder    System32  Then     num   10   End If   RecursiveDeleteFunction folder   num   num   1 Wend   Using Do While or Do Until allows you to stop execution of the loop using Exit Do instead of using trickery with your loop condition to maintain the While     Wend syntax  I would recommend using that instead

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While Loop is an obsolete structure  I would recommend you to replace  While loop  to  Do While  loop   and you will able to use Exit clause   check   0   Do while not rs EOF     if rs  reg code     rcode then        check   1        Response Write   Found          Exit do    else        rs MoveNext      end if  Loop   if check   0 then     Response Write  Not Found   end if

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what about changing the while loop to a do while loop  and exit using  Exit Do

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Use Do   Loop with Until keyword  num 0 Do Until   certain condition to break loop  num num 1 Loop   This loop will continue to execute  Until the condition becomes true  While   Wend is the old syntax and does not provide feature to break loop  Prefer do while loops

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Incredibly old question  but bearing in mind that the OP said he does not want to use Do While and that none of the other solutions really work    Here s something that does exactly the same as a Exit Loop   This never runs anything if the status is already at  Fail      While  i  lt  20 And Not bShouldStop      If  Status    Fail   Then         bShouldStop   True     Else         i   i   1                     Do Something               End If   Wend   Whereas this one always processes something first  and increment the loop variable  before deciding whether it should loop once more or not   While  i  lt  20 And Not bShouldStop      i   i   1             Do Something            If  Status    Fail   Then         bShouldStop   True     End If   Wend   Ultimately  if the variable Status is being modified inside the While  and assuming you don t need i outside the while  it makes no difference really  but just wanted to present multiple options

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