I'm having mental block today... forgive me. I had a workaround to this once, but can't remember what I did (I know -- terrible).

I've tied a file. I go through the file, and find the line I want. Problem is -- the timestamps are on other lines. Also, it's not a specific # of lines away from the line that has my info so simply adding X to the index and grabbing the timestamp won't work.

So, I basically need to go through each line in the array. When my condition returns true, I need to then start ANOTHER loop, and go until I find a timestamp. Now, the kicker... how do I exit this second loop once I hit a timestamp?

I can always let it run through like the next 500 lines (it would surely find one there) and then only take the first timestamp I find, but that's horribly inefficient me thinks. Thanks

In reply to Exiting a loop trickery by GaijinPunch

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