Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

Section 5.8 break and continue Statements

• The break statement, when executed in a while, for, do...while or switch, causes immediate exit from that statement.

• The continue statement (p. 174), when executed in a while, for or do...while, skips the loop’s remaining body statements and proceeds with its next iteration. In while and do...while statements, the program evaluates the loop-continuation test immediately. In a for statement, the increment expression executes, then the program evaluates the loop-continuation test.