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The break Statement
The break statement forcefully terminates the loop or switch execution within which it lies. It
skips the rest of the statements next to the 'break' keyword in the loop and jumps over to the
statement following the loop.
The syntax of the 'break' statement is as follows:
Loop
{
[statement 1]
if(< conditional expression>)
{
[statement 2]
[statement 3]
break;
[statement 4]
}
}
For example:
public class BreakStatement
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
int i;
for(i=1; i<=10; i++)
{
if(i==5)
{
break;
}
else
{
System.out.println("The value of i is: " + i);
}
}
System.out.println("Loop is terminated");
}
}
In the preceding program, the 'for' loop terminates when the value of variable 'i' becomes 5. This
is because the 'break' statement gets executed when the condition given with the ‘if’ keyword
becomes true (i == 5), which causes the loop to stop executing and come outside the loop.
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