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Section: Flow Control
The 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.
Here is a simple example of how 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