In this tutorial, you will learn how to use continue statements in the C programming language with the help of examples.
The continue statement in the C programming language brings the control to the beginning of the loop. It skips some lines of the code inside the loop and continues for the next iteration. The continue statement mainly used to skip some part of the loop if the specified condition is satisfied.
Syntax
The syntax of the C continue is as follows:
//loop statements continue; //some lines of the code which is to be skipped
Example
Let’s check a simple example of the C continue statement.
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int i = 1; //initializing a local variable
//starting a loop from 1 to 10
for (i = 1; i <= 10; i++)
{
if (i == 4)
{ //if value of i is equal to 4, it will continue the loop
continue;
}
printf("%d \n", i);
} //end of for loop
return 0;
}
Output
4 is not printed because once the condition if (i == 4) is satisfied the loop continues for the next iteration without printing the value.Example 2: continue statement
Let’s check another example of the C continue statement.
#include<stdio.h>
void main ()
{
int i = 1;
while(i<=10)
{
printf("%d\n", i);
continue;
i++;
}
}
Output
1
1
1
ctrl+c
continue; statement before updation of the loop variable.C continue Statement with Nested Loop
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
for (int i = 1; i <= 5; i++)
{
for (int j = i; j <= 5; j++)
{
if(i==2){
continue;
} // will continue the loop of j only
printf("%d\t", j);
}
printf("\n");
}
return 0;
}
Output
From the above example, you can see that in the second iteration the value 2 3 4 5 not printed to the console due to the continue statement in the inner loop with the condition if(i==2).