How to break out or exit a method in Java

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The keyword break in Java can be used for breaking out of a loop or switch statement  Is there anything which can be used to break from a method

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use return to exit from a method    public void someMethod                   a bunch of code             if  someCondition                  return                          otherwise do the following            Here s another example  int price   quantity   5          if  hasCream                price price   1                    if  haschocolat                price price   2                    return price

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To add to the other answers  you can also exit a method by throwing an exception manually   throw new Exception

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If you are deeply in recursion inside recursive method  throwing and catching exception may be an option    Unlike Return that returns only one level up  exception would break out of recursive method as well into the code that initially called it  where it can be catched

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Use the return keyword to exit from a method  public void someMethod               a bunch of code         if  someCondition              return                  otherwise do the following       Pls note  We may use break statements which are used to break exit only from a loop  and not the entire program  To exit from program  System exit   Method  System exit has status code  which tells about the termination  such as  exit 0    Indicates successful termination  exit 1  or exit -1  or any non-zero value     indicates unsuccessful termination

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How to break out in java    Ans  Best way    System exit 0    Java language provides three jump statemnts that allow you to interrupt the normal flow of program   These include break   continue  return  labelled break statement  for e g   import java util Scanner  class demo          public static void main String args                      outerLoop   Label             for int i 1 i lt  10 i                                      for int j 1 j lt  i j                                                     for int k 1 k lt  j k                                                          System out print k   t                                break outerLoop                                                 System out println                                                         System out println                               Output  1  Now Note below Program   import java util Scanner  class demo          public static void main String args                      for int i 1 i lt  10 i                                      for int j 1 j lt  i j                                                     for int k 1 k lt  j k                                                          System out print k   t                                break                                                                                   System out println                               output   1 11 111 1111  and so on upto  1111111111   Similarly you can use continue statement just replace break with continue in above example   Things to Remember    A case label cannot contain a runtime expressions involving variable or method calls  outerLoop  Scanner s1 new Scanner System in   int ans s1 nextInt       Error s1 cannot be resolved

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Use the return keyword to exit from a method  public void someMethod               a bunch of code         if  someCondition              return                  otherwise do the following       From the Java Tutorial that I linked to above   Any method declared void doesn t return a value  It does not need to contain a return statement  but it may do so  In such a case  a return statement can be used to branch out of a control flow block and exit the method and is simply used like this  return

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