Control Statements
Control statements are used to transfer the flow of control of the program . These are generally used inside the executions of condition .
The various statements used for executing loops in C are :
Statements | What They Do.. | Programming |
---|---|---|
Break | Exits a loop , or condition . | Structured |
Continue | One iteration of loop is excluded . | Structured |
Goto | Transfers the control to any other line . | Unstructured |
Break Statement
1. break statement is used for exiting a certain block of statements ,i.e, transfering the flow of control to the outside of loop.2. It can be used in for loop , while loop , switch statements or wherever one needs to transfer flow of control.
Syntax for 'Break Control'
break ;
C Example 1
#include<stdio.h> int main() { int i=1; while(i<10) { printf("%d\n",i); if(i==5) { break; } i=i+1; } printf("loop broken"); return 0; }
Output
1 2 3 4 5 loop broken
C Example 2
#include<stdio.h> int main() { int i; for (i=1;i<5;i++) { printf("%d\n",i); if(i==3) { break; } } printf("loop broken"); return 0; }