Continue in C

C language:

C language is a procedure oriented programming language. We can say that it is a platform dependent language. C language is introduced by Dennis Ritchie in the year 1970.

We can create many applications using C programming language. There are many applications that are based on C language. We can also say that C language is a low level programming language.

There are any data types such as int, char, float, double etc and many other tokens , keywords in C programming language. One of such key word is continue. Now let us learn about the key word “ continue “ in detail.

Continue:

In C programming, the continue statement functions similarly to the break statement. It skips any code in between and compels the next iteration of the loop rather than imposing termination. The conditional test and increment sections of the for loop are executed as a result of the continue statement.

The continue statement skips the remainder of the do, for, or while statement body and transfers control to the subsequent iteration of the nearest enclosing do, for, or The do, for, or while statement's subsequent iteration is chosen as follows:

• The following iteration of a do or while statement begins with a reevaluation of the statement's phrase.
• The conditional statement is then reevaluated by the code. It either ends or iterates the statement body depending on the outcome.
• See The for statement for additional details on the for statement and its nonterminals.

Syntax of continue key word :

There is a particular syntax to define continue statement or keyword in C programming language.

1.Syntax of continue in while loop

while(condition)
{
//_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
//_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
//_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
continue;
//_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
//_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
//_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
}

2. Syntax of continue in do while loop

do
{
//_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
//_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
//_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
continue;
//_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
//_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
//_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ } while (condition);

3. Syntax of continue in for loop

for(_ _ _ ; _ _ _ ;_ _ _)
{
//_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
//_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
//_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
continue;
//_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
 //_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
//_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
}

Now let us see few examples based on continue key word by using the following codes as shown below :

Example 1:

# include < stdio.h >
# include < conio.h >
void main ( void )
{
int a=0;
while ( i ! = 10 )
{
printf ( “ %d “ , a );
continue;
a++;
} // while loop
} // main 

Output 1 :

infinite loop

Example 2:

# include < stdio.h >
# include < conio.h >
void main ( void )
{
int a=1;
for(a=0;a<=15;a++)
{
if( a == 5 )
{
continue;
} // if
printf ( “ %d \n “ , a);
} // for loop
} // main

Output 2:

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15

Example 3:

# include < stdio.h >
# include < conio.h >
void main ( void )
{
int a=1 , b=1;
for(a=1;a<=3;a++)
{
for(b=1;b<=3;b++)
{
if ( a == 2 && b == 2 )
{
continue;
 } // 
if
printf ( “ %d %d \n “ , a , b );
} // inner loop
} // outer loop
} // main

Output 3:

1    1
1    2
1    3
2    1
2    3
3    1
3    2
3    3

Here in all these examples we can see that the loop continues after the condition or the statement.