Jump Statement in PHP | Break statement | Continue Statement | Return Statement | goto Statement

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Jump Statement

• It is used to transfer the control from one point to another point in the program.
• There are four jump statements are used in PHP.
• break statement
• continue statement
• goto statement
• return statement

Break statement

• It is used to transfer the control out of the body of loop.
• In other word we can say that it terminates the current loop.
• break statement are mostly used with loops and switch statement.

Example 1: Program with break

<?php
for($i=1;$i<=5;$i++)
{
    if($i==3)
	 break;
	else
	 echo $i." ";
}
?>
<!--Output-->
1 2
because when the value of  i will equal to 3 then break will terminate the loop

Continue statement

• It is used to skip the next statement and continue the loop.
• continue statement are mostly used with loop(for,while,do while)

Example 1

<?php
for($i=1;$i<=5;$i++)
{
//skip the statement when i=3
    if($i==3)
	 continue;
	else
	 echo $i." ";
}
?>
<!--Output-->
1 2 4 5

Example 2:

<?php
for($i=1;$i<=5;$i++)
{
//skip the statement when i>=3
    if($i>=3)
	 continue;
	else
	 echo $i." ";
}
?>
<!--Output-->
1 2

Example 3:

<?php
for($i=1;$i<=5;$i++)
{
//skip the statement when i<=3
    if($i<=3)
	 continue;
	else
	 echo $i." ";
}
?>
<!--Output-->
4 5

Example 4:

<?php
for($i=1;$i<=5;$i++)
{
//skip the statement when i!=3
    if($i!=3)
	 continue;
	else
	 echo $i." ";
}
?>
<!--Output-->
3

goto statement

• It is an user defined control statement that transfer the control as per user requirement.

<?php
for($i=1;$i<=5;$i++)
{
//skip the statement when i!=3
    if($i==3)
	 goto abc;
	else
	 echo $i." ";
}
echo "Hi";
abc:
echo "Hello";
?>
<!--Output-->
1 2 Hello
because when the value of  i will equal to 3 then control will jump to the line 11

return statement

• return statement terminates the current function and transfer the control to the calling function.
• we can also use return statement to transfer value from one function to another.

<?php
function sum($x,$y)
{
return ($x+$y);
}
//funtion calling
$result=sum(5,6);
//printing result
echo "Sum=".$result;
?>
<!--Output-->
Sum=11

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