Foreach loop - Skip an item and go to next one

Sam

Hi,

I have a foreach loop that iterates through a list of files by their name, and then, in another class, still within the loop, opens each file and manipulates it in various ways.

When encountering a bad file (which I can easily detect), I wish to skip the file data manipulation, ignore that file and go to the next item (file name) in the foreach loop.

In short: How can one skip an item in foreach loop and continue with the next one?

Thanks

samatl

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Veena Sarda12y ago
Accepted answer
Inside foreach loop you can perform a condition based logic. So in condition of bad file, that logic is not executed.
Sam12y ago
Thanks. The solution is obvious. My error was that I used wrong 'if' condition. It was solved by using the opposite if condition.
Abhishek Kumar12y ago
Hi sam,

Hope below example will help.

if you don't want to print David.

class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            List students = new List();
            students.Add("Abhishek");
            students.Add("Ramesh");
            students.Add("David");
            students.Add("Rekha");

            foreach(string stud in students)
            {
                if (stud != "David")
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("NameType is" + stud.ToString());
                }
            }
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }

Abhishek