break and continue

If you want to exit any kind of loop early, use break. For loop, this can take an optional expression that becomes the value of the loop expression.

If you want to immediately start the next iteration use continue.

fn main() {
    let (mut a, mut b) = (100, 52);
    let result = loop {
        if a == b {
            break a;
        }
        if a < b {
            b -= a;
        } else {
            a -= b;
        }
    };
    println!("{result}");
}

Both continue and break can optionally take a label argument which is used to break out of nested loops:

fn main() {
    'outer: for x in 1..5 {
        println!("x: {x}");
        let mut i = 0;
        while i < x {
            println!("x: {x}, i: {i}");
            i += 1;
            if i == 3 {
                break 'outer;
            }
        }
    }
}

In this case we break the outer loop after 3 iterations of the inner loop.