C++ Break and Continue

C++ Break

You have already seen the break statement used in an earlier chapter of this tutorial. It was used to “jump out” of a switch statement.

The break statement can also be used to jump out of a loop.

This example jumps out of the loop when i is equal to 4:

Example

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
  if (i == 4) {
    break;
  }
  cout << i << "\n";
}

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C Break and Continue

Break

You have already seen the break statement used in an earlier chapter of this tutorial. It was used to “jump out” of a switch statement.

The break statement can also be used to jump out of a loop. Continue reading C Break and Continue