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Saturday, 2 February 2013

Introduction to Control Statements in Java


Control statements decide flow of a program

JAVA CONTROL STATEMENTS

if, if-else, switch, nested if, switch, for, while, do-while, break, continue and return control statements


Control statements are used in programming languages to cause the flow of control to advance and branch based on changes to the state of a program. The statements inside your source files are generally executed from top to bottom, in the order that they appear. Control flow statements, however, break up the flow of execution by employing decision making, looping, and branching, enabling your program to conditionally execute particular blocks of code.
In Java, control statements can be divided under the following three categories: