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Shiwang Kalkhanda
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Shiwang Kalkhanda (RHCA, RHCSS, MCSE) is a Linux geek and consultant with expertise in the automation of infrastructure deployment and management. He has more than 10 years' experience in security, system, and network administration, and training on open source tech. For most of his automation work, he uses Shell Scripting, Python, and Go. He holds a master's and a bachelor's degree in computer applications. He enjoys traveling and spending time with his children. He is also the author of a book on text processing utilities in Unix-like environments, Learning Awk Programming.
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Statements affecting flow control

Till now we have seen different conditional constructs and loop construct such as if...else, while, for, switch and do statements. Now, we will study break, continue and exit statements which are used to alter the normal flow of program. A loop performs a set of repetitive tasks until the conditional-expression becomes false, but sometimes it is desirable to skip some action statements inside the loop or terminate the loop immediately without checking the conditional-expression. In such cases, break and continue statements are used.

Break usage

The break statement is used to terminate the innermost while, do...while, or for loop that encloses it. The break statement is also used to break out...

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Shiwang Kalkhanda

Shiwang Kalkhanda (RHCA, RHCSS, MCSE) is a Linux geek and consultant with expertise in the automation of infrastructure deployment and management. He has more than 10 years' experience in security, system, and network administration, and training on open source tech. For most of his automation work, he uses Shell Scripting, Python, and Go. He holds a master's and a bachelor's degree in computer applications. He enjoys traveling and spending time with his children. He is also the author of a book on text processing utilities in Unix-like environments, Learning Awk Programming.
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