note 77272 deleted from control-structures.break by peehaa

Note Submitter: Gautam ---- <?php /* break :break command exits the innermost loop construct which contains it. 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. You can view various output by changing comparision operator(<,==,>) or value of $limit */ $to_square_root=65536; $i=1; $limit=4; while (true) { $square_root=sqrt($to_square_root); echo "Square Root of $to_square_root is $square_root.<BR>"; $to_square_root=$square_root; $i=$i+1; if ($i>$limit) // if ($i<$limit) is used, loop breaks on very first execution break; } $loop=$i-1; echo "This loop is executes for $loop times."; /* Above codes produces following output in browser Square Root of 65536 is 256 Square Root of 256 is 16 Square Root of 16 is 4 Square Root of 4 is 2 This loop is executes for 4 times */ ?>