Programming and Data Types

continue

The continue statement passes control to the next iteration of the for or while loop in which it appears, skipping any remaining statements in the body of the loop. In nested loops, continue passes control to the next iteration of the for or while loop enclosing it.

The example below shows a continue loop that counts the lines of code in the file, magic.m, skipping all blank lines and comments. A continue statement is used to advance to the next line in magic.m without incrementing the count whenever a blank line or comment line is encountered.

• fid = fopen('magic.m','r');
  count = 0;
  while ~feof(fid)
      line = fgetl(fid);
      if isempty(line) | strncmp(line,'%',1)
          continue
      end
      count = count + 1;
  end
  disp(sprintf('%d lines',count));
  

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break