In this tutorial, you will learn about the break statement, how to use break statement with for-loop,while-loop,do-while loop,switch statement in Java with the help of examples.

The break statement in Java programming language has the following two usages −

• When the break statement is encountered inside a loop, the loop is immediately terminated and the program control resumes at the next statement following the loop.

• It can be used to terminate a case in the switch statement.

• Syntax :

  
  break;

• Example of break statement with for-loop :

  
  //Java Program to demonstrate the use of break statement    
  //inside the for loop.  
  public class BreakExample 
  {  
  	public static void main(String[] args) 
  	{  
  		//using for loop  
  		for(int i=1;i<=10;i++)
  		{  
  		        if(i==5)
  			{  
  			        //breaking the loop  
              			break;  
          		}	  
          		System.out.println(i);  
      		}  
  	}  
  } 

  Output :

  
  1
  2
  3
  4
  

• Example of break statement with while-loop :

  
  //Java Program to demonstrate the use of break statement  
  //inside the while loop.  
  public class BreakWhileExample 
  {  
  	public static void main(String[] args) 
  	{  
      		//while loop  
      		int i=1;  
      		while(i<=10)
  		{  
          		if(i==5)
  			{  
              			//using break statement  
              			i++;  
              			break;	//it will break the loop  
          		}  
          		System.out.println(i);  
          		i++;  
      		}  
  	}  
  }

  Output :

  
  1
  2
  3
  4
  

• Example of break statement with do-while loop :

  
  //Java Program to demonstrate the use of break statement  
  //inside the Java do-while loop.  
  public class BreakDoWhileExample 
  {  
  	public static void main(String[] args) 
  	{  
      		//declaring variable  
  		int i=1;  
      		//do-while loop  
      		do
  		{  
  		        if(i==5)
  			{  
  			        //using break statement  
  	           		i++;  
  		           	break;  //it will break the loop  
  	        	}  
  		        System.out.println(i);  
  		        i++;  
  		}
  		while(i<=10);  
  	}  
  }  

  Output :

  
  1
  2
  3
  4
  

• Example of break statement with switch statement :

  
  //Java Program to demonstrate the use of break statement  
  //inside the Java switch statement.  
  public class SwitchExample 
  {  
  	public static void main(String[] args) 
  	{  
  		//Declaring a variable for switch expression  
      		int number=20;  
      		//Switch expression  
      		switch(number)
  		{  
  			//Case statements  
      			case 10: System.out.println("10");  
      			break;  
      			case 20: System.out.println("20");  
      			break;  
      			case 30: System.out.println("30");  
      			break;  
      			//Default case statement  
      			default : System.out.println("Not in 10, 20 or 30");  
      		}  
  	}  
  }   

  Output :

  
  20