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Description
Thejava.lang.Thread.sleep(long millis)method causes the currently executing thread to sleep for the specified number of milliseconds, subject to the precision and accuracy of system timers and schedulers.
Declaration
Following is the declaration forjava.lang.Thread.sleep()method
publicstaticvoid sleep(long millis)throwsInterruptedException
Parameters
millis– This is the length of time to sleep in milliseconds.
Return Value
This method does not return any value.
Exception
InterruptedException– if any thread has interrupted the current thread. The interrupted status of the current thread is cleared when this exception is thrown.
Example
The following example shows the usage of java.lang.Thread.sleep() method.
package com.tutorialspoint;import java.lang.Thread;publicclassThreadDemoimplementsRunnable{Thread t;publicvoid run(){for(int i =10; i <13; i++){System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName()+" "+ i);try{// thread to sleep for 1000 millisecondsThread.sleep(1000);}catch(Exception e){System.out.println(e);}}}publicstaticvoid main(String[] args)throwsException{Thread t =newThread(newThreadDemo());// this will call run() function t.start();Thread t2 =newThread(newThreadDemo());// this will call run() function t2.start();}}
Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result:
Thread-010Thread-110Thread-011Thread-111Thread-012Thread-112
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