php-doc-en/language/control-structures/break.xml
Christoph Michael Becker 7104ee97ce Removed literal tags from title for readability
Closes GH-250.


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<sect1 xml:id="control-structures.break" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<title>break</title>
<?phpdoc print-version-for="break"?>
<simpara>
<literal>break</literal> ends execution of the current
<literal>for</literal>, <literal>foreach</literal>,
<literal>while</literal>, <literal>do-while</literal> or
<literal>switch</literal> structure.
</simpara>
<simpara>
<literal>break</literal> accepts an optional numeric argument
which tells it how many nested enclosing structures are to be
broken out of. The default value is <literal>1</literal>, only
the immediate enclosing structure is broken out of.
</simpara>
<para>
<informalexample>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$arr = array('one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'stop', 'five');
foreach ($arr as $val) {
if ($val == 'stop') {
break; /* You could also write 'break 1;' here. */
}
echo "$val<br />\n";
}
/* Using the optional argument. */
$i = 0;
while (++$i) {
switch ($i) {
case 5:
echo "At 5<br />\n";
break 1; /* Exit only the switch. */
case 10:
echo "At 10; quitting<br />\n";
break 2; /* Exit the switch and the while. */
default:
break;
}
}
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
</informalexample>
</para>
</sect1>
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