Learning Java by Building Android Games - Second Edition

Combining different control flow blocks

And you might have been able to guess that we can combine any of the decision-making tools like if, else, and switch within our while loops and all the rest of the loops too. For example:

int x = 0;
int tooBig = 10;

while(true){
   x++; // I am going to get mighty big!
   if(x == tooBig){
      break;
   } // No you're not
   
   // code reaches here only until x = 10
}

It would be simple to go on for many more pages demonstrating the versatility of control flow structures but at some point, we want to get back to finishing the game.

Now we are confident with if and else, let's have a look at one more concept to do with loops. So here is one last concept combined with loops.

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The continue keyword acts in a similar way ...