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copied!<p>You won't be able to exit only from an <code>if</code> condition using either <code>return</code> or <code>break</code>.</p> <p><code>return</code> is used when you need to return from a method after it's execution is finished/you don't want to execute the rest of the method code. So if you use <code>return</code>, then you will not only return from your <code>if</code> condition, but also from the whole method.</p> <p>consider the following method - </p> <pre><code>public void myMethod() { int i = 10; if(i==10) return; System.out.println("This will never be printed"); } </code></pre> <p>Here, using <code>return</code> causes to stop the execution of the whole method after line 3 and execution goes back to its caller. </p> <p><code>break</code> is used to break out from a <code>loop</code> or a <code>switch</code> statement. Consider this example - </p> <pre><code>int i; for(int j=0; j<10; j++) { for(i=0; i<10; i++) { if(i==0) break; // This break will cause the loop (innermost) to stop just after one iteration; } if(j==0) break; // and then this break will cause the outermost loop to stop. } switch(i) { case 0: break; // This break will cause execution to skip executing the second case statement case 1: System.out.println("This will also never be printed"); } </code></pre> <p>This type of <code>break</code> statement is known as <code>unlabeled break</code> statement. There is another form of break, which is called <code>labeled break</code>. Consider this example - </p> <pre><code>int[][] arrayOfInts = { { 32, 87, 3, 589 }, { 12, 1076, 2000, 8 }, { 622, 127, 77, 955 } }; int searchfor = 12; int i; int j = 0; boolean foundIt = false; search: for (i = 0; i < arrayOfInts.length; i++) { for (j = 0; j < arrayOfInts[i].length; j++) { if (arrayOfInts[i][j] == searchfor) { foundIt = true; break search; } } } </code></pre> <p>This example uses nested for loops to search for a value in a two-dimensional array. When the value is found, a labeled break terminates the outer for loop (labeled "search").</p> <p>You can learn more abour <code>break</code> and <code>return</code> statements from <a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/branch.html"><code>JavaDoc</code></a>.</p>

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