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In C#, when the 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 :

The break statement must be inside a loop, otherwise a compile error is issued by compiler at the time of compilation of the program.

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Break statement example

//C# Break statement example 

using System;

class BreakEx       
{
public static void Main()
{
	// A for loop to print the digits from 0 to 9
	for(int i=0;i<10;i++)
	{	
		//checking if the value in i is equal to 5 
		// If yes, the break statement is called.
		if(i==5)
			break;	//when i is equal to 5, this break statement takes the control out of loop

		//Printing the value of i
		Console.WriteLine(i);
	}

	Console.WriteLine("Out of the loop");
}
}

Output

0
1
2
3
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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