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BREAK

The BREAK command transfers program control from within a SWITCH, FOR, or WHILE statement to the statement immediately following the DOEND associated with SWITCH, FOR, or WHILE. You can use BREAK only within OLAP DML programs and only with the SWITCH, FOR, or WHILE statements.

Syntax

BREAK

Notes

TEMPSTAT Statement and BREAK Statement

Within a FOR loop of a program, when a DO ... DOEND phrase follows TEMPSTAT, status is restored when the DOEND, BREAK, or GOTO is encountered.

Examples

Example 8-32 Using BREAK with SWITCH

The following lines from a program include a SWITCH statement with two case labels. The last statement under each case label is BREAK, which ensures that execution does not continue from one set of case statements to the next. Each BREAK statement transfers control to the statement that follows DOEND.

SWITCH userchoice
    DESCRIPTION 'MARKET REPORT\NFINANCE REPORT\NNO REPORT')
    DO
         CASE 'market':
            ...            
            BREAK
         CASE 'finance':
            ...  
            BREAK
         DEFAULT:
            ...
            BREAK
    DOEND
cleanup:
      ...