Ruby Break Statement

The Ruby break statement is used to terminate a loop. It is mostly used in while loop where value is printed till the condition is true, then break statement terminates the loop.

The break statement is called from inside the loop.

Syntax:

break  

Example:

i = 1   

while true   

    if i*5 >= 25   

        break   

    end   

    puts i*5   

    i += 1   

end

Output:

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Ruby Next Statement

The Ruby next statement is used to skip loop’s next iteration. Once the next statement is executed, no further iteration will be performed.

The next statement in Ruby is equivalent to continue statement in other languages.

Syntax:

1. next  

Example:

for i in 5...11   

   if i == 7 then   

      next   

   end   

   puts i   

end

Output: