C Continue Statement With Example

Please note that continue statement can be used only inside a loop statement.

Continue Statement in While Loop

In the following example, while loop tries to print numbers from 0 to 9. But during fourth iteration when i becomes 4, continue statement skips the execution of printing the number.

Refer C While Loop tutorial.

main.cpp

#include

int main() {

int i=0;

while (i < 10) {

if (i==4) {

i++;

continue;

}

printf("%d ", i);

i++;

}

printf("\n");

return 0;

}

Output

0 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9

Program ended with exit code: 0

Also, the control variable i is not incremented because of the continue statement. So, we incremented i before executing the continue statement. If i not modified here, the while loop may become indefinite loop.

Continue Statement in Do-while Loop

In the following example, do-while loop tries to print numbers from 0 to 9. But during fifth iteration when i becomes 5, continue statement skips the execution of further statements in the loop.

Refer C Do-while Loop tutorial.

main.cpp

#include

int main() {

int i = 0;

do {

if (i == 5) {

continue;

}

printf("%d ", i);

} while (++i < 10);

printf("\n");

return 0;