Well these both keywords continue and break are very familiar keywords in every
programming language and are used vastly in daily programming exercises. I will explain where these keywords can be
used in programming like loops (for loop, while loop, do while loop), and
switch case etc. well both break and
continue have very different roles in a program
and there functioning is quite different, I will explain their
differences with proper practical examples.
Break keyword and its functioning
In every programming language every keyword have their logical
meaning, so as per the logical meaning of break, it means that to break
something midway and came out of that thing. Mostly it is used in loops and
switch case. Below is the example with
proper explanation and output result of break keyword.
Example 1:-
<?php
For($i=1; $i<=10; $i++)
{
echo $i;
}
?>
Output result example 1 :-- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Example 2:-
<?php
For($i=1; $i<=10; $i++)
{
echo $i;
If($i==5) break;
}
?>
Output result example
2 :-
1 2 3 4 5
See in example 2 we
have used the break keyword in for loop which is printing from no. 1 to 10, and
we have used the break keyword on condition when value of variable I will be 5
the loop will break and the control
shifts out of loop. So in example 2 it is printing only upto number 5.
Continue keyword and its functioning
The keyword continue is also used in the loops, but unlike
break keyword it is used for continuing the loop. In simple words the point
where continue keyword will be used in the loop the loop will not function
below that point and continue from there only.
This thing will be more clear by the following example.
Example 3:-
<?php
For($i=1; $i<=5; $i++)
{
echo “hello”;
echo “world,”;
}
?>
Output result example 3 :- hello world, hello world, hello world, hello
world, hello world
Example 4 :-
<?php
For($i=1; $i<=10; $i++)
{
echo “hello”;
If($i>=3) continue;
echo “world,”;
}
?>
Output result example 4
:- hello world, hello world, hello,
hello, hello
