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What is a fall through? Give an example.

Java Conditional Stmts

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break statement at the end of case is optional. Omitting break leads to program execution continuing into the next case and onwards till a break statement is encountered or end of switch is reached. This is termed as fall through. For example, consider the below program:


public class FallThroughExample {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        int number = 1;
        switch(number) {
            case 0:
                System.out.println("Value of number is zero");
            case 1:
                System.out.println("Value of number is one");
            case 2:
                System.out.println("Value of number is two");
            default:
                System.out.println("Value of number is greater than two");
        }
        System.out.println("End of switch");
    }
}

Its output when executed will be:

Value of number is one
Value of number is two
Value of number is greater than two
End of switch

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