# break

#### Availability

Flash Player 4.

#### Usage

    break

#### Parameters

None.

#### Returns

Nothing.

#### Description

Action; appears within a loop (`for`, `for..in`, `do while` or `while`) or within a block of statements associated with a particular case within a `switch` action. The `break` action instructs Flash to skip the rest of the loop body, stop the looping action, and execute the statement following the loop statement. When using the `break` action, the Flash interpreter skips the rest of the statements in that `case` block and jumps to the first statement following the enclosing `switch` action. Use the `break` action to break out of a series of nested loops.

#### Example

The following example uses the `break` action to exit an otherwise infinite loop.

    i = 0;
    while (true) {
    	if (i >= 100) {
    		break;
    	}
    	i++;
    }

#### See also

`for`, `for..in`, `do while`, `while`, `switch`, `case`