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The break and continue Statements

Learn about the break and continue keywords and their usage in the context of loops.

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The break statement

There is a special statement in C called break that allows us to exit from a loop earlier. It overrides the loop condition at the top (or bottom) of the loop, and ‘breaks’ out of the loop.

C
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
  // Check whether 80 is in the first 20 multiples of 5
  int mult = 0;
  for(int i = 1; i <= 20; i++) {
    mult = 5 * i;
    if( mult == 80 ){
      printf("80 is in the first 20 multiples of 5.\n5 x %d = %d\n", i, mult);
      break;
      printf("The loop does not reach this point\n");
    }
  }  
  printf("The loop has ended");
  return 0;
}

As you can see in the code above, even though our loop’s ...