“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

As already mentioned that, break-statement works only with switches and loops. Here is another way to achieve what is being asked. I am reproducing https://stackoverflow.com/a/257421/1188057 as nobody else mentioned it. It's just a trick involving the do-while loop.

do {
  // do something
  if (error) {
    break;
  }
  // do something else
  if (error) {
    break;
  }
  // etc..
} while (0);

Though I would prefer the use of goto-statement.