Branching Or Jumping Statements

Branching Statements:-

Branching statements are used to control the flow of the program by jumping to specific sections of code. That is used to control the flow of a program by altering the sequence in which statements are executed.

• Break
• Continue

1. Break :- The break statement in Java is a loop control statement that is used to terminate the loop immediately. As soon as the break statement is encountered from within a loop, the loop iterations stop there, and control returns from the loop immediately to the first statement after the loop. The break statement can be used in all types of loops, such as for loops, while loops, and do-while loops. It can also be used in switch statements.

Example :-

// while loop

int i = 1;

while (i < =10)

{

if (i ==5)

{

break;

}

System.out.println(i);

 i++;

 }

                   Output :-           1         2          3          4

In the above example, the break statement is used to terminate the for loop when the value of i is equal to 5. As a result, the loop only prints the numbers from 1 to 4.

2. Continue :- The continue statement in Java is used to skip the remaining statements in the current iteration of a loop and start the next iteration. It can be used in all types of loops, including for loops, while loops, and do-while loops.

Example :-

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)

     {

if (i == 4)

{

continue; // skip the remaining statements in the current iteration

}

System.out.println(i);

        }

Output :-  0     1          2          3          5          6          7          8          9

As you can see, the value 4 is not printed to the console because the continue statement is used to skip the current iteration of the loop.

Labeled continue statements :-

Java also supports labeled continue statements, which can be used to skip to the next iteration of a specific loop, even if it is an inner loop. To use a labeled continue statement, you first need to label the loop that you want to skip to. This can be done using the continue label; statement.

Example :-

outer: // This is Lable

for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)

     {

inner: // This is Lable

for (int j = 0; j < 3; j++)

    {

        if (j == 2)

          {

                continue outer;

            }

            System.out.println(“I : ” + i + “, j : ” + j);

        }

        }

Output :-      I : 0,  j : 0

  I : 0,  j : 1

  I : 1,  j : 0

  I : 1,  j : 1

  I : 2,  j : 0