Using break to Exit a Loop



Using break to Exit a Loop

It is possible to force an immediate exit from a loop, bypassing any code remaining in the body of the loop and the loop’s conditional test, by using break statement. When a break statement is encountered inside a loop, the loop is terminated, and program control resumes at the next statement following the loop. Here is an example:

{ number i = 1; while (i<10) { if (i==6) break; print(i); i = i + 1; } print("Counting completed."); } The output from the script is shown here: 1 2 3 4 5 Counting completed. In nested loops, the break statement in the inner loop causes only the termination of that loop. The outer loop is unaffected.