Java continue Statement

In this tutorial, we shall see the use of continue statement in java.

The continue statement aborts the current iteration of the loop and moves on to execute the next iteration.

Syntax

continue;

Let us see a program with continue statement to print all the odd numbers in an array.

Example

class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
      
    // create an array with initial values.
    int[] numbers = {1,3,4,5,7,8};

    for (int number: numbers) {
      if(number%2==0){
          continue;
      }
      System.out.println(number);
    }
    System.out.println("End of program.");
  }
}

Output

1
3
5
7
End of program.

In the above program, we have initialize an integer array and loop through it using for-each loop.

Inside the for-each block, we check whether the value is divisible by 2 . If the value is divisible by 2, then we use the continue statement to skip further executing in the block of code and move to the end of the loop. Then it starts the new iteration.