Break Statement

Lesson 10 of 11 in Coddy's Control Statements in Java course.

The break statement in the programming world is used to terminate or end an ongoing process.

Say we want to fill a bottle with water, so we turn on the tap, and the bottle starts getting filled with water. As soon as the bottle gets completely filled, we turn the tap off. We ended as soon as the bottle was full, indicating that our work was completed.

This is exactly what the break statement does.

When you encounter a break statement inside a loop, the loop is terminated, and the control jumps to the next line of code.

It breaks the current flow of the program at the specified condition. In the case of an inner loop, it breaks only the inner loop.

Syntax:

break;

Challenge

Easy

Write a program that loops through a string prints each character and breaks the loop when the letter is 'o' encountered.

Try it yourself

class BreakString {
    public static void breakString(String s) {
        // Write code here
    }
}

All lessons in Control Statements in Java

1What are Control Statements?

Introduction

4Jump Statements

Break StatementContinue Statement

2Decision Making Statments

Simple if Statement if-else Statement if-else-if Statement Nested if-Statement Switch Case Statement

3Loop Statements

For Loop Do-while Loop While Loop