Thread: Code to explain use of continue statement

I am trying to figure out what happens when we use continue statement in code. I have written two code to see the difference but both gives same output

consider this situation with continue statement

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
 {
   int x; 
   for ( x = 0; x < 10; x++ )
	   if ( x == 4)
	   { 
         continue;
		   printf("x = %d \n", x);
	   }
	   
	   else
	   {
		  printf(" x = %d \n", x);  
	   }
   return 0;
}

x = 0
x = 1
x = 2
x = 3
x = 5
x = 6
x = 7
x = 8
x = 9

without continue statement

Code:

#include <stdio.h>


int main()
 {
   int x; 
   for ( x = 0; x < 10; x++ )
	   if ( x == 4)
	   { 
//         continue;
		   printf("x = %d \n", x);
	   }
	   
	   else
	   {
		  printf(" x = %d \n", x);  
	   }
   return 0;
}

x = 0
x = 1
x = 2
x = 3
x = 4
x = 5
x = 6
x = 7
x = 8
x = 9

Originally Posted by laserlight

The output is obviously different. Ok, maybe not that obvious, but that's because you printed so many lines when just a few critical ones would have done the job.

I wanted to see what happens when continuous statement use in code In both code I don't understand what happens if I use continuous keyword in code.

Originally Posted by laserlight

You've been told to make use of learning material like introductory books that would explain these to you. Do that.

If you want to do exploratory learning, well, that's not necessarily wrong, but you need to be sufficiently observant to learn. Over here you didn't notice a difference when a young child doing all the counting they can do would have spotted it.

There is no detailed example given in the book, only theoretical explanation which was not enough for me to understand. That was the reason I wrote my own code

Originally Posted by Rahul11

x = 0
x = 1
x = 2
x = 3
x = 5
x = 6
x = 7
x = 8
x = 9


x = 0
x = 1
x = 2
x = 3
x = 4
x = 5
x = 6
x = 7
x = 8
x = 9

Lazy low hanging fruit.

Counting from 1 to 10 could turn into a problem for a programmer?

Originally Posted by ghoul

Lazy low hanging fruit.

Counting from 1 to 10 could turn into a problem for a programmer?

Thanks I understood, When condition is true, the value of variable is being skipped in the first example

Originally Posted by Rahul11

There is no detailed example given in the book, only theoretical explanation which was not enough for me to understand. That was the reason I wrote my own code

If the "book" you are using to learn C does not have a detailed explanation of such a simple concept such as "continue", then you need a much better book, such as one of the three I have specified earlier!

What "Book" are you actually using???

Originally Posted by Rahul11

Thanks I understood, When condition is true, the value of variable is being skipped in the first example

That is correct.

With a continue statement you instruct the program to skip any of the code that would have been executed during the current run of the most adjacent loops.

Basically, it passes control back to the closest 'for' or 'while' loop. You will probably also come across is its cousin 'break' which stops execution of the loop.