| 1) Can only appear within a loop. |
| 2) Skips all remaining statements within the loop and resumes with the next iteration. |
| For example, |
| for (int x = 0; x < 10; x++) { if (x == 5) continue; else System.out.print(" " + x); } |
| will short-circuit when x takes on a value of 5. |
| The output displayed will be: |
| 0 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 |
| 3)It may specify the label of the loop to be continued. This makes it possible to skip to the next iteration of the specified loop. |
| For example, |
| outer: for (int i = 1; i <= 5; i++) { for (int j = 5; j >= 1; j--) { if (i == j) continue outer; else System.out.println("i = " + i + ", j = " + j); } } |
| will short-circuit to the next iteration of the loop labeled outer when i equals j. |
| The output displayed will be: |
| i = 1, j = 5 i = 1, j = 4 i = 1, j = 3 i = 1, j = 2 i = 2, j = 5 i = 2, j = 4 i = 2, j = 3 i = 3, j = 5 i = 3, j = 4 i = 4, j = 5 |
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