How to stop part of a pair loop

[manymillerboy]

1. What do you want to achieve?
   I want to be able to stop a pair loop, but continue the rest of the loop without ending a whole function.

2. What is the issue?
   I don’t know what to use, I will not use break cause that stops the whole loop and return ends the function that runs the loop entirely.

3. What solutions have you tried so far? Like before I have tried break and return and also did a google search but found nothing that could help.

[ThanksRoBama (Emma)]

break or continue

for _, v in ipairs(things) do
    if isCool(v) then 
        break
    end 
end

break
continue

[ThanksRoBama (Emma)]

If you can’t use break or continue because you don’t actually want to do that to the loop where you want to do it, you need to use a variable in the outer loop to keep track of whether or not the outer loop should break or continue, and then set it in the inner loop.