How do I break out of nested loops in Java?

Question

I\'ve got a nested loop construct like this:

for (Type type : types) {
    for (Type t : types2) {
         if (some condition) {
             // Do somethin         


        

Answer 1

Even creating a flag for the outer loop and checking that after each execution of the inner loop can be the answer.

Like this:

for (Type type : types) {
    boolean flag=false;
    for (Type t : types2) {
        if (some condition) {
            // Do something and break...
            flag=true;
            break; // Breaks out of the inner loop
        }
    }
    if(flag)
        break;
}

Answer 2

You can use a named block around the loops:

search: {
    for (Type type : types) {
        for (Type t : types2) {
            if (some condition) {
                // Do something and break...
                break search;
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

boolean broken = false; // declared outside of the loop for efficiency
for (Type type : types) {
    for (Type t : types2) {
        if (some condition) {
            broken = true;
            break;
        }
    }

    if (broken) {
        break;
    }
}

Answer 4

I needed to do a similar thing, but I chose not to use the enhanced for loop to do it.

int s = type.size();
for (int i = 0; i < s; i++) {
    for (int j = 0; j < t.size(); j++) {
        if (condition) {
            // do stuff after which you want 
            // to completely break out of both loops
            s = 0; // enables the _main_ loop to terminate
            break;
        }
    }
}

Answer 5

You can use labels:

label1: 
for (int i = 0;;) {
    for (int g = 0;;) {
      break label1;
    }
}

Answer 6

You can break from all loops without using any label: and flags.

It's just tricky solution.

Here condition1 is the condition which is used to break from loop K and J. And condition2 is the condition which is used to break from loop K , J and I.

For example:

public class BreakTesting {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        for (int i = 0; i < 9; i++) {
            for (int j = 0; j < 9; j++) {
                for (int k = 0; k < 9; k++) {
                    if (condition1) {
                        System.out.println("Breaking from Loop K and J");
                        k = 9;
                        j = 9;
                    }
                    if (condition2) {
                        System.out.println("Breaking from Loop K, J and I");
                        k = 9;
                        j = 9;
                        i = 9;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        System.out.println("End of I , J , K");
    }
}