User Guide

194 ActionScript language elements
break statement
break
Appears within a loop (for , for..in, do..while or while) or within a block of statements
associated with a particular case within a
switch statement. When used in a loop, the break
statement instructs Flash to skip the rest of the loop body, stop the looping action, and
execute the statement following the loop statement. When used in a
switch, the break
statement instructs Flash to skip the rest of the statements in that
case block and jump to the
first statement following the enclosing
switch statement.
In nested loops, the
break statement only skips the rest of the immediate loop and does not
break out of the entire series of nested loops. For breaking out of an entire series of nested
loops, see
try..catch..finally.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 4
Example
The following example uses the
break statement to exit an otherwise infinite loop:
var i:Number = 0;
while (true) {
trace(i);
if (i >= 10) {
break; // this will terminate/exit the loop
}
i++;
}
which traces the following output:
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
See also
for statement