---
title: "break — Break-off"
description: "iXML command break: Break-off."
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# break — Break-off

BREAK breaks out of the current control flow and continues with the execution outside the paternal control statement, though leaping over arbitrary levels of nested control statements.

### Attributes
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
| ---- | ---- | ------- | ----------- |
| leap | int |  | Leap |

### Children
- (none)

### Parents
- (not restricted in the reference)

### Result
- (none documented)

### Examples

```xml
<set var="count">0</set>

<while>
	<output>$count</output>
	<math:inc var="count"/>

	<if value1="$count" func="=" value2="10">
		<break/>
	</if>
</while>

<!-- 0123456789 -->
```

```xml
<array var="names">
	<item>Bill Gates</item>
	<item>Steve Jobs</item>
</array>

<foreach var="names" var_value="name">
	<output>$name</output>

	<if value1="$name" func="=" value2="Bill Gates">
		<break/>
	</if>
</foreach>

<!-- Bill Gates -->
```