

If you need to correct such error cases as part of an upgrade, you may need to substitute either an exit or return to maintain the existing behavior of such legacy code.

#Php for loop to sort code#
In the one-liner above I ignored the existence of parameters to break/continue, but the one-liner is also valid when parameters are supplied.Īs of PHP 7.0, instead of code executing up until encountering a continue (or break) call outside of a loop statement, the code will simply not execute. In the case of (for, while, do-while) loops, resuming execution just prior their closing curly brackets means that a new iteration is started -which is of course very unlike the behavior of a break statement. This made me come up with the following one-liner that describes the difference between break and continue:Ĭontinue resumes execution just before the closing curly bracket ( } ), and break resumes execution just after the closing curly bracket.Ĭorollary: since a switch is not (really) a looping structure, resuming execution just before a switch's closing curly bracket has the same effect as using a break statement.

The remark "in PHP the switch statement is considered a looping structure for the purposes of continue" near the top of this page threw me off, so I experimented a little using the following code to figure out what the exact semantics of continue inside a switch is:Īnd observed the different results.
#Php for loop to sort archive#
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