C++ Primer Plus, Fourth Edition

The break and continue Statements

The break and continue statements enable a program to skip over parts of the code. You can use the break statement in a switch statement and in any of the loops. It causes program execution to pass to the next statement following the switch or the loop. The continue statement is used in loops and causes a program to skip the rest of the body of the loop and then start a new loop cycle. (See Figure 6.4.)

Figure 6.4. The break and continue statements.

Listing 6.12 shows how the two statements work. The program lets you enter a line of text. The loop echoes each character and uses break to terminate the loop if the ...