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# continue statement

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Causes the remaining portion of the enclosing for, range-for, while or do-while loop body skipped.

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

### [edit] Syntax

attr(optional) `continue` `;` |  |

### [edit] Explanation

The `continue` statement causes a jump, as if by goto to the end of the loop body (it may only appear within the loop body of for, range-for, while, and do-while loops).

More precisely,

For while loop, it acts as

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

For do-while loop, it acts as:

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

For for and range-for loop, it acts as:

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

### [edit] Keywords

`continue`

### [edit] Example

Run this code

    #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; j < 2; j++) {
            for (int k = 0; k < 5; k++) {   //only this loop is affected by continue
                if (k == 3) continue;
                std::cout << j << k << " "; //this statement is skipped each time k==3
            }
        }
    }

Output:

    5
    00 01 02 04 10 11 12 14

### [edit] See also

C documentation for continue

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