11. Break and Continue in Java

 

Break

• The break is a keyword which is used inside loops or switch statement.
• The break statement is used to exit the loop irrespective of whether the condition is true or false.
• Whenever a break is encountered inside the loop or switch-case, the control is sent outside the loop or switch body.
• The break statement breaks the loop one by one i.e., in the case of nested loops.

Control flow for break statement

Continue

• The continue statement is used to immediately move to the next iteration of the loop.
• It skips everything below the continue statement inside the loop and continues with the next iteration.
• It is used for a condition so that we can skip some code for a particular condition.

Control flow for continue statement

class BreakContinue {

    public static void main(String[] arr) {

        System.out.println("Printing numbers from 100 to 110.");

        for (int i = 100; i <= 110; i = i + 1) {

            System.out.println(i);

            if (i == 105) {

                System.out.println("Breaking the loop...");

                break;

            }

        }

        System.out.println("\nPrinting numbers from 100 to 110.");

        for (int i = 100; i <= 110; i = i + 1) {

            if (i == 105) {

                System.out.println("A number will be ignored by the loop which is 105...");

                continue;

            }

            System.out.println(i);

        }

    }

}

Output :

Printing numbers from 100 to 110.
100
101
102
103
104
105
Breaking the loop...

Printing numbers from 100 to 110.
100
101
102
103
104
A number will be ignored by the loop which is 105...
106
107
108
109
110

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