Java Control Statements

The control flow statements in Java allow you to run or skip blocks of code when special conditions are met. You will use control statements a lot in your programs and this tutorial will explain how to do this

• Programs in java will be executed in sequential manner means line by line execution of statements.
• By using control statements we can control the flow of execution.

Different types of control statements: the decision making statements (if-then, if-then-else and switch), looping statements (while, do-while and for) and branching statements (break, continue and return).

Type Of Control Statements  

The control statement are used to controll the flow of execution of the program . This execution order depends on the supplied data values and the conditional logic. Java contains the following types of control statements:

• Selection Statements / Decision making Statements.
• Repetition Statements / Iteration statements.
• Branching Statements  

Selection Statements / Decision making Statements  :

• In some cases we will have a situation like need to execution set of statements based on a condition
• In this scenario we need to use decision making statements in java.

Selection Statements / Decision making Statements  :

• if statement
• if-else statement
• if-else-if statement
• switch statement

Repetition Statements / Iteration statements :

• while loop statements:
• do-while loop statements:
• for loop statements:

Branching Statements:

• Break statements:   
• Continue statements
• Return statements: