VBC09312 — Exit Do not within Do...Loop

Severity: Error · Family: VBC (static semantics / abstract syntax tree) · Source metadata: VBCompileErrorInfo

An Exit Do statement is not lexically inside a Do loop.

MS-VBAL §5.4.2.7 Exit Do Statement requires it to be inside a Do statement, at any depth; MS-VBA reports the same error: Exit Do not within Do...Loop.

This code is raised by ExitStatementStaticSemantics, which StatementStaticSemanticsEvaluator and instruction-list lowering (InstructionListLowering) both ask.

How it is raised

Situation	Example	Resolution
There is no loop around the statement.	`Exit Do` in the body of a `Sub`	Remove it, or use `Exit Sub`, `Exit Function` or `Exit Property` to leave the procedure.
The loops around it are not `Do` loops.	`For i = 1 To 3` ... `Exit Do` ... `Next`	Use `Exit For` to leave a `For` loop.
It is in a `While...Wend` loop.	`While x` ... `Exit Do` ... `Wend`	`While...Wend` has no `Exit` statement. Use a `Do While` loop.

Notes

An Exit Do is the closest enclosing Do loop's, so an Exit Do in a Do loop that is inside a For loop is valid, and so is an Exit For in a Do loop that is inside a For loop.

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VBC09312 — Exit Do not within Do...Loop

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