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How would I stop this foreach loop after 3 iterations?

I have a for loop in PHP.

When a condition is met, I would like it to stop runnning, right now it still continues all the way to 10000 $i values. I want it to totally stop after it finds 6 and continue with the rest of my code.

I have:

$bigarray=...
$countrec=0;
for ($i=1;$i<10000;$i++){
    if($countrec<6){
    if(array_search($i,$bigarray)!=-1){
    echo "Test! $i<br>";
    $countrec++;
    }
    }
}

How can I stop it early?

Answer 1

To stop a loop you simply use a break; statement:

for ($i = 0;  $i < 10000; $i++) {
    if ($i == 666) {
      break; // will break out of the loop
    }
}