AppleScript in a Nutshell

Name

exit [repeat]

Syntax

repeat 2 times
   exit repeat
end repeat

Description

The exit statement causes the flow of script execution to leave the exit statement’s repeat loop. The execution then resumes with the script code following the repeat loop. exit can only be used inside of a repeat loop, regardless of the repeat-loop variation. Using exit is the conventional way to exit a repeat loop that has no conditional statement associated with it, as shown in this example. In other words, this form of repeat is an infinite loop:

repeat
   set userReply to the text returned of (display dialog "Want to get¬
   out of this endless loop?" default answer "")
   if userReply is "yes" then exit repeat
end repeat

This endless loop can also be exited by clicking the Cancel button on the dialog produced by display dialog, which terminates the execution of the script.