This tutorial highlights you about the continue statement when there is a need to skip the rest of the statement in the body.
During programming, you can use continue statement when there is a need to skip the rest of the statement in the body of the loop and continue with the next iteration of the loop. Continue statement in Java successfully used in many languages like C, C++, etc and it provide the option if we don not need to execute some statements under the loop then we use the continue statement that stops the normal flow of the control and control returns to the loop without executing the statements written after the continue statement.
There is the difference between break and continue statement that the break statement exit control from the loop but continue statement keeps continuity in loop without executing the statement written after the continue statement according to the conditions.
The program highlight you the conditions that when you will see that how the continue statement is used to stop the execution after that.
Below is the code of program:
public class Continue{
public static void main(String[] args){
Thread t = new Thread();
int a = 0;
try{
for (int i=1;i<10;i++)
{
if (i == 5)
{
continue;
//control will never reach here (after the continue statement).
//a = i;
}
t.sleep(1000);
System.out.println("chandan");
System.out.println("Value of a : " + a);
}
}
catch(InterruptedException e){}
}
}
Output of the program:
If we write the code in the given program like this :
if (i == 5 )
{
continue;
a = i;
}
Then the program will generate a error on compile time like :
C:\chandan>javac Continue.java
Continue.java:12: unreachable statement
a = i;
^
1 error
If we write the code in the given program like this :
if (i == 5 )
{
continue;
}
Then the program prints the output like :
C:\chandan>javac Continue.java
C:\chandan>java Continue
chandan
Value of a : 0
chandan
Value of a : 0
chandan
Value of a : 0
chandan
Value of a : 0
chandan
Value of a : 0
chandan
Value of a : 0
chandan
Value of a : 0
chandan
Value of a : 0
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