Using a break in a catch within a foreach causes robot to hang

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Scenario: Break hangs when used in a catch. This does not error or produce an exception it simply hangs while trying to execute.

Steps to reproduce:

For this error you need a foreach with a try and catch where the break is in the catch.

For example:

try
for each item in array

check false(btest)
catch

checkpoint exception
break

Current Behavior: The process hangs.

Expected Behavior: The for each should break out and carry on executing the rest of the flow.

Studio/Robot/Orchestrator Version: 2017.1

Last stable behavior: If the break is outside of the try catch it executes correctly. However this does mean that we have to do a larger try catch or other methodology that is inefficient.
Last stable version:This was not tested in any other versions
OS Version: windows 7
Others if Relevant: (workflow, logs, .net version, service pack, etc):

We have a workaround for this but i thought it worth logging as this would seem to be a bug.

Thanks

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@Andrei_Pop

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hello guys, this is a know issue. thanks a lot!

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Hello gabriel,

Do you have any idea on when it could be resolved (if planned to be) ?

Thanks a lot,

Enzo

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Hello, this is not planned to be changed in the near future.

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Hi Gab,

How can i avoid this? If I want to skip the current item in the foreach loop every time it hits an exception.

whats the alternate approach to avoid the robot hanging?

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Hi there, depending on what functionality you need you could encapsulate your foreach in a try catch and then use a checkpoint exception or a throw to specifically throw outside of the foreach.