Break and Continue

Break and Continue:                                                                                  

There are two statement built in C ,break; and continue; to interrupt the normal flow of control of a program. Loop perform a set of operation repeatedly  until certain condition  becomes false but, it is sometimes desirable to skip some statement inside loop and terminate the loop immediately  without checking the test expression.

In such cases, break and continue statements are used.

Break:

In C programming , break is used in terminating the loop immediately after it is encountered.

The break statement is used with conditional if statement. The break statement can be used in terminating all three loops for, while ,do-while loops.

 Syntax break:

 Break;

Program to understand break statement. #include<stdio.h>   main()   {     int n;      for(n=1;n<=5;n++)      {      if(n==3)       break;       printf(“number:%d\n”,n);      } }

Continue:

It is sometimes desirable to skip some statements inside the loop. In such cases, continue statements are used.

Just like break , continue is also used with conditional if statement.

Syntax for continue:

    Continue;

Program to understand continue statement #include<stdio.h> Main() {   Int n;    For(n=1;n<=5;n++)   {    If(n==3)      Continue;     Printf(“number:%d\n”,n);   } }