Kotlin break

Kotlin break

In Kotlin, break statement is used to break and jump out of the loop.

Syntax

The syntax of a break statement is

break

where

• break is keyword.

Usually, break statement is placed inside an if-statement, so that the loop can be broken when a specific condition is met.

Examples

1. Break While loop

In the following program, we take a While loop to iterate over numbers from 1 to 10. Also, we will place a break statement inside the loop, to break the While loop after printing 5.

Kotlin Program

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    val n = 10

    var i = 1
    while (i <= n) {
        println(i)
        if (i == 5) {
            break
        }
        i++
    }
}

Output

1
2
3
4
5

If there is no break statement, the While loop would have printed the numbers upto 10.

2. Break For loop

In the following program, we take a For loop to iterate over a string array. When the string element equals "cherry", we shall break the loop using break statement.

Kotlin Program

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    val fruits = arrayOf("apple", "banana", "cherry", "mango", "fig")
    for (fruit in fruits) {
        if (fruit.equals("cherry")) {
            break
        }
        println(fruit)
    }
}

Output

apple
banana

If there is no break statement, the For loop would have printed all the elements in the given string array.