Computer Science for STEM: The PreTeXt Interactive Edition

In loops, we sometimes want to traverse until we reach a certain value. We could make a loop condition with a boolean that is toggled as True once we reach that value, but there’s an easier way: the break statement.

When a break statement is reached, the loop immediately ends and proceeds with the code after the loop. break is only a valid statement inside of loops, such as the following:

The continue statement is another keyword that we can use in loops. When a continue statement is reached, the current iteration is stopped (similar to break), however, the loop will continue running for all iterations after the current one.