Purpose of continue statement

Purpose of continue

The continue statement skips the remaining statements of the current iteration of a loop and moves control directly to the next iteration (in a for loop, to the update expression; in while and do-while, to the condition test). It lets us ignore particular cases without leaving the loop.

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
    int i, sum = 0;
    for (i = 1; i <= 10; i++)
    {
        if (i % 2 == 0)
            continue;       /* skip even numbers */
        sum += i;
    }
    printf("Sum of odd numbers 1..10 = %d\n", sum);
    return 0;
}

Output:

Sum of odd numbers 1..10 = 25

Where it can be used

continue can be used only inside loops: for, while and do...while. It may be written inside an if or a switch that is itself inside a loop, but not outside a loop.