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Early out with Map?

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• Subject: [mg16036] Early out with Map?
• From: "Oscar Stiffelman" <ostiffel at leland.stanford.edu>
• Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 02:52:15 -0500
• Organization: SBC Internet Services
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

Is it possible to interrupt Map before it reaches then end of the list?


For example, how would I convert the following from procedural to
functional?


(* This is the procedural version *)
foundSolution = False;
For[i =1, i <= numChildren && ! foundSolution, i++,
    If[testChild[children[[i]]],
        foundSolution = True;
      ];
];
foundSolution



(*
* This keeps going until it reaches the end of the list.
* I would prefer to return as soon as testChild returns True
*)
Or @@ Map[testChild, children]


(*
* This does not actually return
*)
Map[If[testChild[#], Return[True], False]&, children]

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  • Re: Early out with Map?
    • From: "Carl K.Woll" <carlw@fermi.phys.washington.edu>