continue statemenet

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difference between break and continue statement

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Definition:

It is sometimes desirable to skip some statements inside the loop. In such cases, continue statements are used.
Syntax:
continue;
Just like break, continue is also used with conditional if statement.

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Example of continue statement

Write a C program to find the product of 4 integers entered by a user. If user enters 0 skip it.

//Program to demonstrate the working of continue statement in C programming 

# include <stdio.h>

void main(){

    int i,n,product;

    for(i=1,product=1;i<=4;++i){

        printf("Enter n%d:",i);

        scanf("%d",&n);

        if(n==0)

            continue;  / *In this program, when num equals to zero, it skips the statement product*=num and continue the loop. */

        product*=n;

}

    printf("product=%d",product);

return 0;

}

Output

Enter n1:3

Enter n2:0

Enter n3:-5

Enter n4:2

product=-30

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