Re: Break from a dolist

[Jambunathan K]

Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:

> I have the following code to fetch the email address belonging to a
> mailing list. I use it to automatically fill the to address when
> posting to a newsgroup.
>
>     (defun dcbl-gnus-get-mailing-list-address ()
>       "Get gnus-newsgroup-name mailing list address (if it has one);"
>       (let ((to-address nil))
>         (when gnus-newsgroup-name
>           (dolist (item dcbl-gnus-mailing-lists)
>             (when (string-match (car item) gnus-newsgroup-name)
>               (setq to-address (cdr item)))))
>         to-address))
>
> But when the address is found, it would be better to leave the loop.
> Is this possible?


    (info "(elisp) Examples of Catch")

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