Break and Continue Statement in C

Break and Continue Statement in C

In this post, We will learn about the break and continue statement in c programming language.

Break Statement in C

The break statement terminates the loop (for, while and do while loop) immediately when it is encountered. The break statement is used with decision-making statement such as if...else.

Syntax Break

break;

Example:  write a program to calculate the sum numbers (maximum 10 numbers). Calculates sum until the user enters a positive number

 # include <stdio.h>  
 int main()  
 {  
   int i;  
   double number, sum = 0.0;  
   for(i=1; i <= 10; ++i)  
   {  
     printf("Enter a n%d: ",i);  
     scanf("%lf",&number);  
     if(number < 0.0)  
     {  
       break;  
     }  
     sum += number;  
   }  
   printf("Sum = %.2lf",sum);  
   return 0;  
 }  

Continue Statement in C

The continue statement skips some statements inside the loop. The continue statement is used with decision-making statement such as if...else.

Syntax Continue 

continue;

Example: write a program to calculate sum numbers (maximum of 10 numbers). skip the negative numbers from the calculation.

 # include <stdio.h>  
 int main()  
 {  
   int i;  
   double number, sum = 0.0;  
   for(i=1; i <= 10; ++i)  
   {  
     printf("Enter a n%d: ",i);  
     scanf("%lf",&number);  
     if(number < 0.0)  
     {  
       continue;  
     }  
     sum += number;   
   }  
   printf("Sum = %.2lf",sum);  
   return 0;  
 }  

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