Labeled statement in java

The scope of a label is the immediately contained statement after the label.

Execute a label executes the contained statement or the following statment in another word.

label:
 statement

Label should work with break and continue to make an impact. Break a label will stop execution immediately. Continue a label will stop current loop and execute next loop. Note that break can work with if statement, whereas continue must work with loops. See below example.

public class LabelTest {

  public static void main(String ...args) {
    // a raw label statement
    l1:
    System.out.println("label statement");

    l2:
    for(int i=0;i<3;i++)
    for(int j=0;j<3;j++) {
      if(j == 1) {
        // continue to l2, continue from outer loop
        continue l2;
      }
      // output:
      // 0 0
      // 1 0 
      // 2 0
      System.out.println(i + " " + j);
    }

    l3:
    for(int i=0;i<3;i++)
    for(int j=0;j<3;j++) {
      if(j == 1) {
        // break to l3, break entire loop
        break l3;
      }
      // output:
      // 0 0
      System.out.println(i + " " + j);
    }

   l4:
   if(true) {
     System.out.println("break if");
     break l4;
   }
 } 

}