How do we write exit procedure or function in javascript to exit middle of the program?

[Jevin]

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How do we exit a procedure/function in javascript? I have a form on a web page. When my "Submit" button is pressed, a function is called that validates my form. If a particular radio button is selected, I want to exit the function and forget validating the form. I am very frustrated with this problem since my book, plus all my searches on the web have not shown anybody doing this with javascript.

[Khushal]

"return" lets you exit a function and optionally return a value. Since you have multiple RadioButtons with the same name, document.RequestForm.DBEnhance will return an array. There is no such global function either. In fact, even if you use return, which can be used to prematurely exit functions. And also there is no need to call anything to exit an if statement, it does so automatically once the script within the statement is executed.

[Astro121]

I'm not sure if I agree with you here. I was always under the impression that the break statement can be used to break out of a while, if, switch, or for statement. I hate to suggest this but how about thinking of causing an error to occur in the JavaScript code? That stops execution so that you don't have to loop endlessly and have a potential crash on your hands.

[Addison_12]

If the function supplied is the only script then it will automatically cease with the execution with the edit that I supplied, if it is called by another function then all that has to be done is to return false to that call. The code throws up "'exit' is undefined" most likely because 'exit' is undefined in that Javascript. It's not on the list of reserved words for the language, and you haven't defined it anywhere. While the break statement on its own can only be used to exit a loop, the optional label can be added to break to exit any kind of statement.