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In Java, there are branching statements, for example the break statement, which breaks the loop in the program and continues running the statements after the loop. If you have a for or while loop and you want it to stop after a certain condition is true, you can have a break statement inside the if statement. How is it implemented in code? Take a look below.
BreakStatementExample.java
package exlcode;
public class BreakStatementExample {
public static int exampleVariableOne = 10;
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Counting forward from 0-10:");
for (int count = 0; count <= exampleVariableOne; count++) {
System.out.print(count + " ");
// once count is equal to 5, the break statement will
// terminate the for loop
if (count == 5) {
break;
}
}
}
}
The if statement has the expression "count == 5", so when count has a value of 5 the statements inside the if statement will be executed, including the break; statement, which will terminate the for loop so any number after 5 will not be printed. break; does not affect the if statement, it terminates the whole loop. When the break; statement is used appropriately, it saves time when running the program because you wouldn't have to loop through the same statements over and over again.
