# How to stop script execution

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [May 1, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-stop-script-execution/38568 "2020-05-01T17:39:22Z")\
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This thread might be helpful to you. It sounds like you are trying to do something similar.

> [@A Julia equivalent to R's stop()?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-julia-equivalent-to-rs-stop/36568/5):
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> You could probably do something like: struct Stop{T} answer::T end function stop(answer) throw(Stop(answer)) end function start() stop(42) end try start() @info "No answer." catch ex if isa(ex, Stop) @info "Exit with: $(ex.answer)" else rethrow(ex) end end This assumes that you are not already catching exceptions in the stack. If you are then you probably want to throw a “Stop” object that the other exception handlers can rethrow. This is al…

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