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When a break statement is encountered within a loop of a program, it stops executing the remaining statements in the loop and takes the control out of it to execute the first statement right after the loop.

Note :

Break statement must be inside a loop, otherwise a compile error is issued by Java Compiler at the time of compilation of the program..

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Break statement example

//Break statement example 

class Break         //class starts
{
public static void main(String... ar)      //main method starts
{

for(int i=0;i<10;i++)
{
	if(i==5)
		break;	//when i is equal to 5, break statement takes the control out of loop

	System.out.println(i);
}

System.out.println("Out of the loop");

} // main method ends
} // class ends

Output

0
1
2
3
4
Out of the loop

As you can see in the program and its output, when i is equal to 5, break statement breaks the execution of the loop and it takes the control out of loop to execute the first statement outside the loop.

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