break and continue in Java

March 2, 2022 Java

In this post, you will learn how to work with break and continue so that you can use that same knowledge and thus evolve.

break makes the life of the cycle come to an end, that is, makes it not iterate through anything else;
continue ignores the entire content of the loop that is following from itself and automatically moves to the next iteration.

package com.caffeinealgorithm.programminginjava;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class BreakAndContinue {
  public void Run() {
    List<String> animals = new ArrayList<>();
    int counter = 0;

    animals.add("Dog");
    animals.add("Cat");
    animals.add("Chicken");
    animals.add("Rabbit");
    animals.add("Lion");

    for (String animal : animals) {
      System.out.printf("Animal: %s\n", animal);

      if (animal == "Chicken")
        break;
    }

    while (counter < 10) {
      counter++;

      if (counter == 5)
        continue;

      System.out.printf("Counter: %d\n", counter);
    }
  }
}

/*
  Animal: Dog
  Animal: Cat
  Animal: Chicken
  Counter: 1
  Counter: 2
  Counter: 3
  Counter: 4
  Counter: 6
  Counter: 7
  Counter: 8
  Counter: 9
  Counter: 10
*/

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break and continue in Java

Happy coding!