Break and Continue Keyword in C

In many situations we need to come out of the loop in the middle based upon some conditions.

In C, we can use break keyword to come out of loop. After the break statement is executed control goes to the first statement after loop.

#include <stdio.h>

void main()

{

int i=0;

while(i<10)

{

  printf("%d",i);

  if (i==5)

  break;

  i++;

}

}

In above example, we have used break statement to come out of while loop. Above loop will print the values from 0 to 5.

Similarly we have continue keyword that can be used to get the control to the beginning of the loop. After continue statement is executed, all the statements after continue are skipped and control goes to the condition statement in the loop.

Example on continue keyword in C.

#include <stdio.h>

void main()

{

  int i=0;

  while(i<10)

 {

  i++;

  if (i%2==0)

  continue;

  printf("%d",i);

 }

} 

In above example we have used continue statement to print only odd numbers. If the number is even, control goes to the beginning of the loop.

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