“break;” out of “if” statement?

Question

Can you break out of an if statement or is it going to cause crashes? I\'m starting to acquaint myself with C, but this seems controversial. The first image is from a book o

Answer 1

This is actually the conventional use of the break statement. If the break statement wasn't nested in an if block the for loop could only ever execute one time.

MSDN lists this as their example for the break statement.