Few Tricky Programs in Java

1. Comments that execute :

   Till now, we were always taught “Comments do not Execute”. Let us see today “The comments that execute”

   Following is the code snippet:

   
   

   
   
   

   public class Testing {     public static void main(String[] args)      {          // the line below this gives an output          // \u000d System.out.println("comment executed");      } }

   Output:

   comment executed

   The reason for this is that the Java compiler parses the unicode character \u000d as a new line and gets transformed into:

   
   

   
   
   

   public class Testing {     public static void main(String[] args)     {         // the line below this gives an output         // \u000d         System.out.println("comment executed");     } }

2. Named loops :

   
   

   
   
   

   // A Java program to demonstrate working of named loops. public class Testing  {     public static void main(String[] args)     {     loop1:     for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)      {         for (int j = 0; j < 5; j++)          {             if (i == 3)                 break loop1;             System.out.println("i = " + i + " j = " + j);         }     }    } }

   Output:

   i = 0 j = 0
   i = 0 j = 1
   i = 0 j = 2
   i = 0 j = 3
   i = 0 j = 4
   i = 1 j = 0
   i = 1 j = 1
   i = 1 j = 2
   i = 1 j = 3
   i = 1 j = 4
   i = 2 j = 0
   i = 2 j = 1
   i = 2 j = 2
   i = 2 j = 3
   i = 2 j = 4

   You can also use continue to jump to start of the named loop.

   We can also use break (or continue) in a nested if-else with for loops in order to break several loops with if-else, so one can avoid setting lot of flags and testing them in the if-else in order to continue or not in this nested level.

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