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The break statement will move control outside a loop or switch statement. Stylistically speaking, break has the potential to be a bit vulgar. It's preferable to use a straight

while with a single test at the top if possible. Sometimes you are forced to use a break

because the test can occur only somewhere in the midst of the statements in the loop

body. To keep the code readable, be sure to make the break obvious -- forgetting to

account for the action of a break is a traditional source of bugs in loop behavior.

while (<expression>) {

<statement>

<statement>

if (<condition which can only be evaluated here>)

break;

<statement>

<statement>

}

// control jumps down here on the break

The break does not work with if. It only works in loops and switches. Thinking that a break refers to an if when it really refers to the enclosing while has created some high quality bugs. When using a break, it's nice to write the enclosing loop to iterate in the

most straightforward, obvious, normal way, and then use the break to explicitly catch the exceptional, weird cases.

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