Continue Keyword in Java

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I saw this keyword for the first time and I was wondering if someone could explain to me what it does.

  • What is the continue keyword?
  • How does it work?
  • When is it used?
Jul 3, 2018 in Java by developer_1
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continue is kind of like goto. Are you familiar with break? It's easier to think about them in contrast:

  • break terminates the loop (jumps to the code below it).

  • continue terminates the rest of the processing of the code within the loop for the current iteration, but continues the loop.

A continue statement without a label will re-execute from the condition the innermost while or doloop, and from the update expression of the innermost for loop. It is often used to early-terminate a loop's processing and thereby avoid deeply-nested if statements. In the following example continue will get the next line, without processing the following statement in the loop.

while (getNext(line)) {
  if (line.isEmpty() || line.isComment())
    continue;
  // More code here
}

With a label, continue will re-execute from the loop with the corresponding label, rather than the innermost loop. This can be used to escape deeply-nested loops, or simply for clarity.

Sometimes continue is also used as a placeholder in order to make an empty loop body more clear.

for (count = 0; foo.moreData(); count++)
  continue;

The same statement without a label also exists in C and C++. The equivalent in Perl is next.

This type of control flow is not recommended, but if you so choose you can also use continue to simulate a limited form of goto. In the following example the continue will re-execute the empty for (;;) loop.

aLoopName: for (;;) {
  // ...
  while (someCondition)
  // ...
    if (otherCondition)
      continue aLoopName;
answered Jul 3, 2018 by Rishabh
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