C# - Continue Statement

C# continue Statement

The continue statement in C# works somewhat like the break statement. Instead of forcing termination, however, continue forces the next iteration of the loop to take place, skipping any code in between.

For the for loop, continue statement causes the conditional test and increment portions of the loop to execute. For the while and do...while loops, continue statement causes the program control passes to the conditional tests.

Syntax

The syntax for a continue statement in C# is as follows −

continue;

Flow Diagram

Using continue Statement with do while Loop

In this example, we use the continue statement to skip the iteration when a becomes 15 −

using System;
namespace Loops {
   class Program {
      static void Main(string[] args) {
         /* local variable definition */
         int a = 10;
         
         /* do loop execution */
         do {
            if (a == 15) {
               /* skip the iteration */
               a = a + 1;
               continue;
            }
            Console.WriteLine("value of a: {0}", a);
            a++;
         } 
         while (a < 20);
         Console.ReadLine();
      }
   }
} 

Output

When the above code is compiled and executed, it produces the following result −

value of a: 10
value of a: 11
value of a: 12
value of a: 13
value of a: 14
value of a: 16
value of a: 17
value of a: 18
value of a: 19

Using continue Statement with for Loop

In this example, we use the continue statement to skip the current iteration and move to the next iteration of the loop −

using System;
class ContinueExample {
   static void Main() {
      for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
         // Skip even numbers
         if (i % 2 == 0) {
            // Jump to the next iteration
            continue; 
         }
         Console.WriteLine("Odd number: " + i);
      }
      Console.WriteLine("Loop completed.");
   }
}

Output

The following is the output of the above code −

Odd number: 1
Odd number: 3
Odd number: 5
Odd number: 7
Odd number: 9
Loop completed.