Java continue statement

In this chapter you will learn:

1. How to force an early termination of a loop
2. How to use continue and label together

continue a loop

continue statement forces an early iteration of a loop. In while and do-while loops, a continue statement causes control to be transferred to the conditional expression that controls the loop. In a for loop, control goes first to the iteration portion of the for statement and then to the conditional expression.

The following code shows how to use a continue statement.

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] argv) {
    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
      System.out.print(i + " ");
      if (i % 2 == 0)
        continue;
      System.out.println("");
    }/*from j  a va2  s  .  com*/
  }
}

The code above generates the following result.

continue with a label

continue may specify a label to describe which enclosing loop to continue.

public class Main {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    outer: for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
      for (int j = 0; j < 10; j++) {
        if (j > i) {
          System.out.println();//ja  va2s. c  o m
          continue outer;
        }
        System.out.print(" " + (i * j));
      }
    }
    System.out.println();
  }
}

Here is the output of this program:

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