Program To Show Importance of Continue Statement? Java Example

In this example, the continue statement is placed in the body of inner for loop. While executing inner for loop, if the condition (m==n) evaluates to true then the continue statement is executed and the remaining statement for displaying values of m and n is skipped and control is transferred to the increment expression (n++) of inner for loop. This increments the value of n by 1 and test condition (n<=2) is evaluated again for this incremented value of n. This process continues. We have used continue statement in this program so that the same value of m and n should not be displayed.

Like the labeled break statement, we also have a labeled continue statement which is usually encountered in the nested loop. The labeled continue statement cause the labeled loop to start a new iteration and terminate the current and future iterations of all the inner loops. The syntax for using the labeled continue statement is

continue label;

The rules for naming label are the same as discussed in the labeled break statement.

//Program to Show Importance of Continue Statement 
 public class ContinueStatement 
 { 
     public static void main(String[] args) 
     { 
         System.out.println("Show importance of Continue statement"); 
         for(int m=1;m<=3;m++) 
             { 
                 for(int n=1;n<=2;n++) 
                     { 
                          if(m==n) 
                          continue; 
                          System.out.println("m = "+m+ " n = " + n); 
                     } 
             } 
     } 
 }