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They allow altering the natural flow of loops and switch cases to handle certain conditions efficiently. In other words, jump statements transfer the execution control to the other part of the program ...

Essentially, an “if statement” is what you use for “flow control.” If statements allow for branching code that lets programs react dynamically to inputs.