exiting code if condition is met

I have written a bunch of code but I would like to ignore it if and a condition is met. so for

   if length(dict)=1
  newguess=dict
  end
%bunch of code

I want to ignore all that code if my if statement is met and just stop if length(dict)=1

Answer 1

[Thorsten]

 if length(dict)=1
   newguess=dict
 else
   %bunch of code
 end

[Max]

thanks just a follow up question how do i find the length of a cell. say dict={'aa';'aal';'aalii';'aam';'aani'} dict has 5 words in it how do I find when it has just one for an if statement.

[Thorsten]

 n = numel(dict);

[Thorsten]

 n = numel(dict);