Labeled Statements

By Author: Pradip Dwevedi
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The concepts of labeled statements are important, when you are preparing for SCJP/OCJP certifications. Let’s read more about labeled statements in the article.

Java doesn’t provide goto statements. Java contains several ways to jump from one statement to another in certain circumstances. Below we discuss such statements.

Labeled break statement:

Break statement will be used when you want to terminate the loop execution at particular condition and execute next statements after the loop.

Example 1:
If the break occurs within a nested loop, the flow will jump to the next statement in the next outer loop. For example, in the following case
for( int k=0; k< 10; k++){
while ( i < 5) {
i=b.call();
if(i