Section: Flow Control
break
statement is used to exit a loop prematurely.
It can be used inside a for
loop or a while
loop. The
syntax for its use is
break
inside the body of the loop. The break
statement forces
execution to exit the loop immediately.
break
exits the loop.
We have a loop that sums integers from 1
to 10
, but
that stops prematurely at 5
using a break
. We will
use a while
loop.
break_ex.m function accum = break_ex accum = 0; i = 1; while (i<=10) accum = accum + i; if (i == 5) break; end i = i + 1; end
The function is exercised here:
--> break_ex ans = 15 --> sum(1:5) ans = 15 --> quit