Data Structures Using C, 2nd Edition by Pearson

Overview of C 27

1.10.3.1 The ‘break’ and ‘continue’ Statements The break statement can be used in any ‘C᾽ loop

to terminate execution of the loop. We have already seen that it is used to exit from a switch statement. In

fact, whenever the break statement is encountered in a loop the control is transferred out of the loop. This

is used in a situation where some error is found in the program inside the loop or it becomes unnecessary

to continue with the rest of the execution of the loop.

Consider the following program segment:

:

while (val != 0)

{

:

printf (“\n %d”, val);

if (val < 0) {

printf (“\n Error in input”);

break; ...