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of the loop to take place, skipping any code between itself and the conditional expression
that controls the loop. Thus,
continue
is essentially the complement of
break
. For example,
the following program uses
continue
to help print the even numbers between 0 and 100:
Only even numbers are printed, because an odd one will cause the loop to iterate early, by-
passing the call to
println( )
.
In
while
and
do-while
loops, a
continue
statement will cause control to go directly to
the conditional expression and then continue the looping process. In the case of the
for
, the
iteration expression of the loop is evaluated, then the conditional expression is executed,
and then the loop continues.
As with the
break
statement,
continue
may specify a label to describe which enclosing
loop to continue. Here is an example program that uses
continue
with a label:
