Line 32: error: break statement not within loop or switch C++?

You don't use break statements in if-else conditionals, only in switch blocks and as a loop terminator if a certain condition is met while the loop is executing.

Your break statement is inside an else block, but not a loop. It looks like you intended for it and the surrounding if else blocks to be inside the for loop. However, without adding braces to the for loop, it will only run for the very next line after the for statement itself, which in this case is an output call. Here, I'll mark the code to make it easier to see: for (int i=0; i < 5; i++) /*This line is the loop statement.*/ cout << "Withdraw: Enter a negative number. Deposit: Enter a positive number. Enter 0 to exit." << endl; /*This line is inside the loop body.*/ cin >> a; /*This line, and all the lines following it, are NOT inside the loop body. They will only be run once.*/ if (a > 0) { //etc break; } I think what you intended to do was this: for (int i=0; i < 5; i++) /*This line is the loop statement.*/ { cout << "Withdraw: Enter a negative number. Deposit: Enter a positive number. Enter 0 to exit." << endl; /*This line is inside the loop body.*/ cin >> a; /*Now this line is inside the loop body too.*/ if (a > 0) { //etc break; } /*This is the last line inside the loop body.*/ } /*This is the closing brace for the loop.*/

You can this page to see the use of break in C++: