Random Walks/switch breakout

[Codegeek892]

I am writing a program that generates a Random Walks pathway. In a part of the program I have a Switch statement nested in a While loop. If I use continue, it should bring me back to the beginning of the while loop right? I feel like it should, but if I'm wrong its gonna take me a heck of a lot of time to pull out the bug, which is why I thought I'd ask. Please, serious responses which answer my question.

[anduril462]

Consider this a "freebie". In the future, my serious response will be: Did you write a simple program to test this behavior?

#include <stdio.h>


int main(void)
{
    int i;


    for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
        printf("i = %d\n", i);
        switch (i) {
            case 0:
            case 1:
            case 2:
                continue;
                break;
        }
        puts("If this prints, the continue statement didn't work");
    }


    return 0;
}

It won't be hard to pull out the bug if you don't code it straight into your big program.

EDIT: Also, if adding a switch statement with a continue will make debugging that difficult, then I suspect one of two things. Either your code is not well organized/designed (perhaps a symptom of writing code before you fully understand the problem and have planned a solution on paper) or you are doing way too much coding between stopping to compile/test. Seriously, compile/debug/test every 10 or 20 lines of coding, or thereabouts, especially if you're fairly new to programming.

[Codegeek892]

Fair enough. And thank you.