Overview

Break keyword can be used in select to terminate the execution of innermost statement similar to switch and for look. Below is the break keyword example in select.

Code

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
	ch := make(chan string, 1)
	ch <- "Before break"

	select {
	case msg := <-ch:
		fmt.Println(msg)
		break
		fmt.Println("After break")
	default:
		fmt.Println("Default case")
	}
}

Output

Before break

break statement will terminate the execution of innermost statement and below line below will never be executed

fmt.Println("After break")