Break & Continue in Java

By using break,you can force immediate termination of a loop, bypassing the conditional expression and any remaininh code in the body of the loop.When a break statement is encountered inside a loop, the loop is immediately terminated and the program control resumes at the next statement following the loop.

The continue statement performs such an action. In while and do-while loops, a continue statement causes control to be transferred directly to the conditional expression that controls the loop.

This Java code defines a class break_continue that contains a main method. The main method defines a for loop that iterates from 1 to 10. Inside the loop, the code checks if the value of i is equal to 5 using an if statement. If i is equal to 5, the continue statement is executed which skips the current iteration and moves on to the next iteration of the loop.

If i is not equal to 5, the code prints the value of i using the System.out.println method. After printing the value of i, the code checks if the value of i is equal to 8. If i is equal to 8, the break statement is executed which terminates the for loop.

Source Code

public class break_continue {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
            if(i==5)
                continue;
            System.out.println(i);
            if(i==8)
                break;
        }
    }
}

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