How do you prematurely exit a loop?

• A. continue;
• B. break;
• C. exit;
• D. return;

Answer: (B)

The key idea is stopping a loop before it finishes all its iterations. The break statement does exactly that: it immediately ends the nearest enclosing loop and transfers control to the code that follows the loop. This works for both for and while loops, and if you’re inside nested loops, break only exits the innermost one unless you add additional logic to reach outer loops.

Continuing would skip the rest of the current iteration and move to the next one, not end the loop. Exiting the entire program (or process) or returning from a function would stop more than just the loop, which isn’t what you want when you only need to stop looping early.