The break statement modifies the normal flow of execution while it terminates the existing loop and continues execution of the statement following that loop. Break statement is required as sometimes you want to break out of a loop early when a condition is met.
Let us now understand Break Statement with help of below pseudocode:
As we see the control skips the lines after the break statement and executes the first statement outside the loop.
Example – Use break statement to print number from 9 to 5 and another print statement when you encounter break
The pseudo code for this will look like below:
a = 9
while a > 0:
print 'Current variable is :', a
a = a -1
if a == 5:
break
print "Bye!"
This is the result for the code
Current variable is : 9
Current variable is : 8
Current variable is : 7
Current variable is : 6
Bye!
