How to break out or exit a method in Java?

To break out or exit a method in Java, you can use the return statement.

The return statement immediately exits the current method and returns control to the calling method. If the method has a return type, you can also use the return statement to specify the value that the method should return.

Here's an example of how you can use the return statement to exit a method:

public int getSum(int[] numbers) {
  int sum = 0;
  for (int number : numbers) {
    if (number > 10) {
      return sum; // exit the method and return the current sum
    }
    sum += number;
  }
  return sum; // return the final sum
}

This code defines a getSum method that takes an array of integers as an argument and returns the sum of the numbers in the array. The method uses a loop to iterate over the numbers in the array, and it uses the return statement to exit the method and return the current sum if it encounters a number that is greater than 10.

To use this method, you can simply call it and pass in your array of numbers as an argument:

int[] numbers = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
int sum = getSum(numbers);
System.out.println(sum); // prints 15

This will print the sum of the numbers in the array to the console.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions.