The Break and Continue Statements

The break and continue Statement

Sometimes when we apply loops we need to come out of the loop on occurrence of particular condition. This can be achieved by break statement. Following program illustrates the use of break in the for loop.

Java Program [breakdemo.java]

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This program shows the use of break statement

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class breakdemo

{

public static void main(String args[])

{

for(int i=1;i<=20;i++)

{

if(i%10==0)

{

System.out.println("number "+i+" is divisible by 10");

break;//come out of for loop

}

else

System.out.println("number "+i+" is not divisible by 10");

}

}

}

Output

The number 1 is not divisible by 10

The number 2 is not divisible by 10

The number 3 is not divisible by 10

The number 4 is not divisible by 10

The number 5 is not divisible by 10

The number 6 is not divisible by 10

The number 7 is not divisible by 10

The number 8 is not divisible by 10

The number 9 is not divisible by 10

The number 10 is divisible by 10

Program explanation: Note that in the above program the numbers after 10 will not be considered at all. This is because when we reach at 10 then if condition becomes true and we encounter break statement. This forces us to come out of for loop. Just look at the output of corresponding program!!!

Similarly we can use the return statement which is useful for returning the control from the current block.