Does anyone knows what the group_skip do?
Maybe it is a basic programming, but I've been programming using Java for some years and just found it today.
group_skip: do {
event = stepToNextEvent(FormController.STEP_OVER_GROUP);
switch (event) {
case FormEntryController.EVENT_QUESTION:
case FormEntryController.EVENT_END_OF_FORM:
break group_skip;
}
} while (event != FormEntryController.EVENT_END_OF_FORM);
Thanks!
解决方案
This is a labelled loop, when break group_skip; statement is executed, it will jump out of the do while loop which is labelled as group_skip
boolean isTrue = true;
outer: for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
while (isTrue) {
System.out.println("Hello");
break outer;
} // end of inner while
System.out.println("Outer loop"); // does not print
} // end of outer loop
System.out.println("Good Bye");
This outputs
Hello
Good Bye
You can get the concept clear here.
There is a labelled for loop called outer and there is inner while loop
When inner for loop is being executed, it encounters break outer; statement
The outer for loop has a System.out.println"Outer loop" statement but that does not get printed.
This is because break outer causes the control to jump out of labelled for loop directly
Now this example for continue statement
outer: for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < 5; j++) {
System.out.println("Hello");
continue outer;
} // end of inner loop
System.out.println("outer"); // this won't print
} // end of outer loop
System.out.println("Good bye");
This prints
Hello
Hello
Hello
Hello
Hello
Good bye
There is a labelled for loop here and an inner for loop
Inner for loop prints Hello and continues to the outer loop.
Because of this, the statements below inner for loop are skipped and outer loop continues to execute.
At the end of outer for loop, Good Bye is printed
Hope this makes everything clear.