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Use return instead

Posted by Kishori Sharan on March 02, 2001 at 5:22 PM

System.exit ( 0 ) ; is used to stop JVM in Java. So you are getting correct behaviour. You need to use return statement as

if ( condition_to_exit) {
return ;
}
else {
}

if your method returns void then you can just use return; else you will have to return an appopriate value;