Causes the remaining portion of the enclosingfor,range-for,while ordo-while loop body to be skipped.

Used when it is otherwise awkward to ignore the remaining portion of the loop using conditional statements.

[edit]Syntax

[edit]Explanation

Thecontinue statement causes a jump, as if bygoto to the end of the loop body (it may only appear within the loop body offor,range-for,while, anddo-while loops).

More precisely,

Forwhile loop, it acts as

while(/* ... */){// ...continue;// acts as goto contin;// ...   contin:;}

Fordo-while loop, it acts as:

do{// ...continue;// acts as goto contin;// ...    contin:;}while(/* ... */);

Forfor andrange-for loop, it acts as:

for(/* ... */){// ...continue;// acts as goto contin;// ...    contin:;}

[edit]Keywords

continue

[edit]Example

#include <iostream> int main(){for(int i=0; i<10;++i){if(i!=5)continue;std::cout<< i<<' ';// this statement is skipped each time i != 5}std::cout<<'\n'; for(int j=0;2!= j;++j)for(int k=0; k<5;++k)// only this loop is affected by continue{if(k==3)continue;// this statement is skipped each time k == 3:std::cout<<'('<< j<<','<< k<<") ";}std::cout<<'\n';}

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