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C basic

C Home

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C Introduction

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C Get Started

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C Syntax

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C Output

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C Comments

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C Variables

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C Data Types

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C Constants

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C Operators

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C Booleans

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C If ... Else

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C Switch

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C Break and Continue

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C Break / Continue

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C While Loop

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C For Loop

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C Arrays

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C Strings

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C User Input

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C Memory Address

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C Pointers

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C Functions

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C Files

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C Structures

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C Enums

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C Memory

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Text lesson

C Break / Continue

Break

You’ve encountered the break statement previously in this tutorial, where it was employed to exit a switch statement prematurely.

The break statement can also facilitate exiting a loop.

In this example, the for loop terminates when i equals 4:

Example

int i;

for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
if (i == 4) {
break;
}
printf(“%d\n”, i);
}

Continue

The continue statement interrupts the current iteration within the loop when a specified condition is met, proceeding directly to the next iteration.

In this example, the value 4 is skipped:

Example

int i;

for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
if (i == 4) {
continue;
}
printf(“%d\n”, i);
}

Break and Continue in While Loop

Break and continue can also be utilized within while loops:

Break Example

int i = 0;

while (i < 10) {
if (i == 4) {
break;
}
printf(“%d\n”, i);
i++;
}

Continue Example

int i = 0;

while (i < 10) {
if (i == 4) {
i++;
continue;
}
printf(“%d\n”, i);
i++;
}