Can you use a goto command in Java?

You cannot use the GoTo statement in Structured Programming, however you may use the break and continue statements in loops. Although GoTo is a reserved word, it is not used in Java language. Avoid using GoTo's in your programs.

First of all, Java DOES have goto as a reserved keyword. One reason so that you cannot name a variable 'goto'. It is also true you can compile java with the line numbers. BASIC uses goto 20. (You see WHY Bill Gates had to have BASIC). But, use goto and the Java compiler doesn't know what to do with it. goto is not implemented. The switch( selection) branch or the enum class is how you do the same thing you want to do using Java.

No, there is no goto in Java. This is a good thing. In languages like Java, C#, and VB, you would achieve something like this by calling functions. It would be a good idea for you to learn about that before you get much further.

I don't believe Java has any such thing as goto. That said, even with languages that do have goto, like C, it is very bad practice to use it, because it makes it incredibly easy to shoot yourself in the foot. In Java, you could just put the extra code inside the if statements, which would work fine. However, sometimes you will want to create extra methods and call them from inside the if statements. You can also put all your 'menu' code inside a loop with an exit condition, so that it keeps asking for inputs until some certain input (or something else) tells it to stop doing so. The kind of loop you want is probably a while loop, which looks like this: while(condition) { //code block } which will keep executing the code block until, upon starting the code block, it finds that the condition (which must be a boolean statement) evaluates to false.