break - Terminate execution of for or while loop
Syntax
break
Description
break terminates the execution
of a for or while loop. Statements in the loop that
appear after the break statement are not executed.
In nested loops, break exits only from the
loop in which it occurs. Control passes to the statement that follows
the end of that loop.
Remarks
break is not defined outside a for or while loop.
Use return in this context
instead.
Examples
The example below shows a while loop that
reads the contents of the file fft.m into a MATLAB character
array. A break statement is used to exit the while loop
when the first empty line is encountered. The resulting character
array contains the M-file help for the fft program.
fid = fopen('fft.m','r');
s = '';
while ~feof(fid)
line = fgetl(fid);
if isempty(line) || ~ischar(line), break, end
s = sprintf('%s%s\n', s, line);
end
disp(s);
fclose(fid);See Also
for, while, end, continue, return
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