What are break and continue statement in c language?

Answer 1

Break is used to exit the closest loop. Continue will cause the program to go to the beginning of the loop.

for(int x=0;x<10;x++)

{

//continue;

for(int y=0;y<10;y++)

{

break;

}

}

The break statement causes the inner loop to stop at the first iteration. If the continue statement was uncommented, the inner loop would never be executed because the program would jump back to the beginning(until x = 10 of course).

Answer 2

in a for, do or while loop or switchbreak causes a jump out of the loop or switch.

continue causes a jump to the test part of a for, do or while loop.

Answer 3

The break statement causes execution to leave the current containing loop and transfer control to the statement following the loop terminus. The continue statement causes transfer of control to the terminus, causing the next iteration of the loop to be processed, or the loop to be terminated if there are no more iterations.

Answer 4

Break command is used to terminate flow of control in a loop or switch statement but continue statement is used to terminate the current loop and follow the loop path again but with next value of the loop.

In other words if break command is used in a loop then that loop is terminated and control is transferred to the statement written just after the loop, but if continue statement is used in a loop then that loop is supposed to be completed and is reinitialised with next value of the loop, control is transferred to the first statement of the loop with the value of loop variable changed.

Answer 5

Break statement is used to transfer the control to outside the loop and switch... case , but continue statement is used to transfer the control to beginning of the loop.

Answer 6

The break statement terminates the nearest enclosing loop or switch statement.

The continue statement starts a new iteration of the nearest enclosing loop.

Answer 7

to terminate a loop.