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In C language, when a break statement is encountered within a loop of a program, it stops executing the remaining statements in the loop and takes the control out of it to execute the first statement right after the loop.

Note :

Break statement must be inside a loop, otherwise a compile error is issued by Java Compiler at the time of compilation of the program..

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Break statement example

/* C - Break statement example */

#include<stdio.h>

int main()      /* main method starts */
{

for(int i=0;i<10;i++)
{
	if(i==5)
		break;	/* when i is equal to 5, break statement takes the control out of loop */

	printf("i = %d \n",i);
}

printf("Out of the loop");

return 0;
} /* main method ends and so does the program */

Output

i = 0
i = 1
i = 2
i = 3
i = 4
Out of the loop

As you can see in the program and its output, when i is equal to 5, break statement breaks the execution of the loop and it takes the control out of loop to execute the first statement outside the loop.

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