Does a break leave just the try/catch or the surrounding loop?

Question

If I have a try ... catch block inside a while loop, and there#s a break inside the catch, does program execution leave t

Answer 1

A break statement always applies to the innermost while, do, or switch, regardless of other intervening statements. However, there is one case where the break will not cause the loop to exit:

while (!finished) {
    try {
        doStuff();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        break;
    } finally {
        continue;
    }
}

Here, the abrupt completion of the finally is the cause of the abrupt completion of the try, and the abrupt completion of the catch is lost.