Break, unfortunately, has two completely different uses (inherited from C). The first is to terminate cases in switch blocks, see switch for info.
The second use is to get out of loops. A break; statement causes execution to immediately leave the innermost loop, and continue executing as if the loop had finished. It can be used to get out of for(), while(), do while(), and foreach() loops.
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