Swift Academy · Lesson

break and continue Basics

Exit or skip iterations cleanly.

What break Does

The break statement immediately exits the innermost loop, skipping any remaining iterations.

for n in 1...10 {
    if n == 4 {
        break
    }
    print(n)
}
print("done")

The continue statement skips the rest of the current iteration and jumps to the next one.

for n in 1...6 {
    if n % 2 == 0 {
        continue
    }
    print(n)
}