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Conditional break inside loop

Reports conditional breaks at the beginning or at the end of a loop and suggests adding a loop condition instead to shorten the code.

Example:

while (true) { if (i == 23) break; i++; }

After the quick fix is applied:

while (i != 23) { i++; }

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

ConditionalBreakInInfiniteLoop
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Java | Control flow issues

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Conditional break inside loop inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Don't suggest to replace with 'do while'

Default value:

Not selected
Allow merging with existing loop condition

Default value:

Not selected
Suggest conversion when 'if' is a single statement in loop

Default value:

Not selected

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection ConditionalBreakInInfiniteLoop

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025