The continue statement is used to skip some statements and go to next iteration of the loop. and the continue statement can be written as follow
continue;
it is generally used with the condition. its force to the next iteration and skipping the code of current iteration or not executes the current statements when continue statement encounter.
The difference between break and continue is that when the break statement is encountered the loop terminates, And when the continue statement is encounter then the loop is not terminate but the next iteration of the loop starts.
/* program to understand the use of continue statement*/
#include < iostream.h >
void main()
{
int i;
for(i=0;i<=10;i++)
{
if(i==5)
continue;
cout << i;
}
return 0;
}
In this example when iteration i value becomes 5 then continue statement encountered and skip the all code for the iteration 5 and go to the next iteration. .