Control Statement break and continue

Break Statement

break statement is used inside loops and switch statements. Sometime it becomes necessary to come out of the loop even before the condition becomes false. in such a situation, break statement is used to terminate the loop. This statement causes an immediate exit from that loop in which this statement appears. it can be written as-

break;

When break statement is encountered, loop is terminated and the control is transferred to the statement immediately after the loop. The break statement is generally written along with a condition. if condition. if break is written inside a nested loop structure then it causes exit from the innermost loop.

// program to understand the use of break/

#include<stdio.h>

main()

{

int n;

for(n=1;n<=5;n++)

{

     if(n==3)

     {

       printf("I understand the use of break\n");

       break;

     }

       printf("Number =%d\n",n);

}

printf("Out of for loop\n");

}

Output:

Number=1

Number=2

I understand the use of break

out of for loop

// program to understand use of break another example:

#include<stdio.h>

main()

{

    int choice;

    printf("Enter Your choice:");

    scanf("%d",&choice);

    switch(choice)

    {

        case 1:

        printf("First\n");

        break;

          

          case 2:

          printf("Second\n");

           break;

          

           case 3:

           printf("Third\n");

             break;

          

           default:

           printf("Wrong choice:\n");

}

Output

Enter your choice : 2

second 

in second example when break find then compiler goes out of switch condition, if we does not use break condition in the above example then if we select case 1 then print "First" as well as "second" Third and wrong choice all printed because c is sequential programming language program compile in sequentially, when above program compiler find the break that terminate the condition and goes out of that block.