Difference between break and continue in PHP

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What is the difference between break and continue in PHP

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break will stop the current loop  or pass an integer to tell it how many loops to break from    continue will stop the current iteration and start the next one

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Break ends the current loop control structure and skips to the end of it  no matter how many more times the loop otherwise would have repeated   Continue skips to the beginning of the next iteration of the loop

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I am not writing anything same here  Just a changelog note from PHP manual        Changelog for continue   Version Description  7 0 0 - continue outside of a loop or switch control structure is now detected at compile-time instead of run-time as before  and triggers an E COMPILE ERROR   5 4 0   continue 0  is no longer valid  In previous versions it was interpreted the same as continue 1    5 4 0   Removed the ability to pass in variables  e g    num   2  continue  num   as the numerical argument       Changelog for break   Version Description  7 0 0   break outside of a loop or switch control structure is now detected at compile-time instead of run-time as before  and triggers an E COMPILE ERROR   5 4 0   break 0  is no longer valid  In previous versions it was interpreted the same as break 1    5 4 0   Removed the ability to pass in variables  e g    num   2  break  num   as the numerical argument

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break exits the loop you are in  continue starts with the next cycle of the loop immediatly   Example    i   10  while  -- i        if   i    8                continue            if   i    5                break            echo  i     n       will output   9 7 6

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BREAK      break ends execution of the current   for  foreach  while  do-while or   switch structure    CONTINUE      continue is used within looping   structures to skip the rest of the   current loop iteration and continue   execution at the condition evaluation   and then the beginning of the next   iteration    So depending on your need  you can reset the position currently being executed in your code to a different level of the current nesting   Also  see here for an artical detailing Break vs Continue with a number of examples

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continue  is used within looping structures to skip the rest of the current loop iteration and continue execution at the condition evaluation and then the beginning of the next iteration    break  ends execution of the current for  foreach  while  do-while or switch structure   break accepts an optional numeric argument which tells it how many nested enclosing structures are to be broken out of    Check out the following links   http   www php net manual en control-structures break php  http   www php net manual en control-structures continue php  Hope it helps

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For the Record      Note that in PHP the switch statement is considered a looping   structure for the purposes of continue

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break will exit the loop  while continue will start the next cycle of the loop immediately

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break ends a loop completely  continue just shortcuts the current iteration and moves on to the next iteration   while   foo       lt --------------------      continue     --- goes back here --      break        ----- jumps here ----                                                            lt --------------------    This would be used like so   while   droid   searchDroids          if   droid     theDroidYoureLookingFor            continue       the search with the next droid             foundDroidYoureLookingFor   true      break       off the search

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break used to get out from the loop statement  but continue just stop script on specific condition and then continue looping statement until reach the end    for  i 0   i lt 10   i         if  i    5           echo  It reach five lt br gt            continue            echo  i     lt br gt       echo   lt hr gt     for  i 0   i lt 10   i         if  i    5            echo  It reach end lt br gt             break            echo  i     lt br gt        Hope it can help u

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