The break Statement in Java

The Java break statement at a defined situation interrupts the program’s current flow. It passes the control to the statement that follows the terminated statement.

In the Java programming language, we can use the break statement in two ways. When a break statement is used within a loop, the loop ends right away, and the code proceeds with the following statement, which is after the loop body. It is also used to end the switch-case condition when a match happens.

We can use the Java break statement in any loop, such as for loop, do-while loop, and while loop.

For example,

public class DemoBreak {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // for loop
    for (int i = 0; i <= 10; i++) {
      if (i == 7) {
        // using Break Statement
        break;
      }

      System.out.println(i);
    }
  }
}

Output:

0
1
2
3
4
5
6

The break statement is encountered when the variable i is equal to 7 in the above example. Similarly, we can use this for other loops also.

We can use the break statement with switch-case statements, as shown below.

public class DemoSwitchBreak {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    int number = 2;
    String name;
    switch (number) {
      case 1:
        name = "Pass";
        break;
      case 2:
        name = "Fail";
        break;
      default:
        name = "Invalid";
        break;
    }
    System.out.println(name);
  }
}

Output:

Fail

In the switch-case statement, we use the break statement to terminate the block and go to the next line of code whenever a match occurs. If we do not use the break statement, then it will execute all the cases.