stopping a loop

[fervent orbit]

whats the best way to instantly stop a loop that is currently in a timer? i currently used task.cancel and task.spawn but it looks so inefficient. any help will be appreciated thanks!

this is what i currently have

[cosmic juniper]

dude u can use break

[fervent orbit]

Where?

[cosmic juniper]

is this client or server

[fervent orbit]

This is an example script I made and I don’t see how it’s relevant, it’s a server script tho

[cosmic juniper]

every 1 second at top of the script add a value

Do if statement and if its reaches 8 seconds then break

[fervent orbit]

Ik I could do that, the thing is I want it to be exact and that seems more complicated

[cosmic juniper]

Huh? That’s easier

[fervent orbit]

Also what if the script is (does something, waits 3 seconds, does another thing, wait 3)?

[cosmic juniper]

for an for loop?

[fervent orbit]

Yes in a loop

[cosmic juniper]

task.wait(3) do something

[fervent orbit]

Lol what?

[fervent orbit]

My question is how do I instantly stop a loop like this once a condition is met?

[cosmic juniper]

if true then break end

Make a boolean

[fervent orbit]

Yeah but there’s still a 6 second delay to stop the loop right?

[cosmic juniper]

dont over complicated it and do if statments to check if a condition is met and stop the loop

[fervent orbit]

Where do I put the if statement?

[cosmic juniper]

inside the for loop

[fervent orbit]

What if instead of 3 seconds it was 30 seconds… I don’t want any delay in stopping the loop

[cosmic juniper]

it doesnt make a difference

how is there gonna be delay

[fervent orbit]

the if statement u suggested to stop the loop would still have to wait 60 seconds

[cosmic juniper]

The if statement wont do nothing

until the condition is met

[fervent orbit]

I’m a little confused on what you’re suggesting, can you type a quick example?

[cosmic juniper]

Im on phone but sure

[fervent orbit]

Same ok

[cosmic juniper]

for count = 1,30 do
if timePassed == 8 then break end
Print(“code here”)
timepassed += 1
Task.wait(5)
end

@fervent orbit

[fervent orbit]

Bro u don’t uunderstand what im asking at all. The condition to stop the loop won’t be timer based, that was just an example. What I want is a way to instantly stop an ongoing for or while loop the second a condition is met.

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[cosmic juniper]

idk why you would post something irrelevant to your question but ok…

Like I said do an if statment inside the loop for whatever reason u want to check and thats it.

[fervent orbit]

Like I said what if the loop has longer waits in them? The if statement would only be checked after the waits happen. I want the effect to happen immediately, not after it does a full loop

[cosmic juniper]

do an example of what u mean

[fervent orbit]

How do I stop a loop like this immediately once a condition is met?

[cosmic juniper]

To stop a for loop you need to use break

simple

[fervent orbit]

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I’m not an idiot ik that

WHEN do I use the break in the loop

[cosmic juniper]

when the if statement is true

dude

what part do u not get about if statements

[fervent orbit]

omg

Js forget about it

I’ll ask someone else

[cosmic juniper]

how else u gonna check

ok

@chrome ether

[chrome ether]

why have i been summoned

[chrome ether]

task.cancel/task.spawn pair is not 'inefficient'

[chrome ether]

specially not for something like this, it's fine

[fervent orbit]

Is there a cleaner or more elegant solution or no?

[chrome ether]

no you either task.cancel/task.spawn pair or put a break condition in the loop

[fervent orbit]

Yeah the downside with the break condition is I usually have multiple waits

So it wouldn’t work with waits right?

[chrome ether]

the wait would finish and then break

[fervent orbit]

As it would essentially add a cooldown before breaking

[fervent orbit]

But it wouldn’t be instant?

[chrome ether]

it doesn't matter?

if the loop is going to immediately halt next time it resumes who cares?

if you have risk of overlapping timers then use the task.cancel/task.spawn pair

[fervent orbit]

Does task.cancel stop a loop midway through or no?

[chrome ether]

task.cancel closes any open thread

[fervent orbit]

So would it finish the iteration?

[chrome ether]

no

[fervent orbit]

So task.cancel is better if I want it to stop the loop in its entirety right?

[chrome ether]

neither is strictly better

[fervent orbit]

I thought break would wait for the iteration to finish?

And I want to stop the entire iteration immediately

[chrome ether]

why not try some of these techniques out and see what happens instead of guessing

http://tryitands.ee

[fervent orbit]

I’m on my phone rn. My solution I showed worked but looked very unnesnesary for something quite simple. All I was wondering was if there was an easier solution but I guess not

[shy creek]

how does s1 not know this

welp

[burnt moss]

There’s this nifty keyword called break

[fervent orbit]

And where would u suggest to break the loop?

[burnt moss]

At a condition where you want to break the loop...

[fervent orbit]

What if my loop has multiple waits?

It would only break after it reached that part of the iteration

[cosmic juniper]

yeah bro like everyone said use if statmenets

[fervent orbit]

ts ain’t gonna work cuz I need it to be instant, im using task.cancel

[cosmic juniper]

break is instant sooo idk what u mean

[fervent orbit]

it only checks the if once it reached that point in the iteration. If the iteration takes 1 minute the it’ll wait roughly 1 minute

[cosmic juniper]

then make 2 loops

[fervent orbit]

That’s literally what I did

With task.cancel