The break statement is used within loops. When the break statement is encountered, control immediately comes out of the loop. The break statement is used to force early termination of a loop.

We will illustrate the use of break statement through the following code snippet which prints numbers from 1 to 10.

int i = 1;
while (i <= 10) {
    System.out.println(i);
    i++;
}

int i = 1;
do {
    System.out.println(i);
    i++;
} while (i <= 10);

for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
    System.out.println(i);
}

Here are the modified versions of the above codes which print numbers till 5 only because of the break statement.

int i = 1;
while (i <= 10) {
    System.out.println(i);
    if (i == 5) {
        break;
    }
    i++;
}

int i = 1;
do {
    System.out.println(i);
    if (i == 5) {
        break;
    }
    i++;
} while (i <= 10);

for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
    System.out.println(i);
    if (i == 5) {
        break;
    }
}