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In Ruby, how do I skip a loop in a .each loop, similar to 'continue'

Submitted by: @import:stackoverflow-api·Mar 10, 2026·

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Problem

In Ruby, how do I skip a loop in a .each loop, similar to continue in other languages?

Solution

Use next:

(1..10).each do |a|
  next if a.even?
  puts a
end

prints:

For additional coolness check out also redo and retry.

Works also for friends like times, upto, downto, each_with_index, select, map and other iterators (and more generally blocks).

For more info see http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/tut_expressions.html#UL.

Code Snippets

(1..10).each do |a|
  next if a.even?
  puts a
end

Context

Stack Overflow Q#4230322, score: 692

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