Demonstrate the working of break and continue statement with example

3.C) Demonstrate the working of break and continue statement with a suitable example

Answer:-

Break and continue: break and continue are unconditional control constructs.

i. Break:-

This statement is useful to terminate a loop and transfer control out of the loop under special situations.

• break statement works with while, do….while, for, and switch statements.
• Following program syntax diagrammatically represents the working
• mechanism of a break statement.

Note: If a break statement is used in the nested loops, the control will come out

from the inner loop; still, the outer loop is active.

Working of break statement:
When condition2 is true the loop gets terminated and control is transferred to
 statement5 (which is outside the loop). Here we can observe that even though

Example Program for Break:-

void main( )
{
int i; for(i=1;i<=5;i++)
{
if(i==3)
break; printf(“%d ”,i);
}


Output: 1 2

ii. Continue

• The statement is helpful to skip a particular set of statements in the loop body and to continue execution from the beginning of the loop.
• Following syntax clearly depicts how control shifts to the beginning of a loop on finding continue statement.

Working of continue statement:
When condition2 is true continue statement is executed which results in transfer
 of control to beginning of while loop skipping statement4 and statement5.

Example Program for Continue:-

void main()
{
int i; for(i=1;i<=5;i++)
{
if(i==3) continue; printf(“%d ”,i);
}


Output: 1 2 4 5