C Break and Continue

Break

You have already seen the break statement used in an earlier chapter of this tutorial. It was used to "jump out" of a switch statement.

The break statement can also be used to jump out of a loop.

This example jumps out of the for loop when i is equal to 4:

Continue

The continue statement breaks one iteration (in the loop), if a specified condition occurs, and continues with the next iteration in the loop.

This example skips the value of 4:

Break and Continue in While Loop

You can also use break and continue in while loops:

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
  if (i == 5) {
    ;
  }
  printf("%d\n", i);
}