Break and Continue in C++

 

The break and continue statements are used to control the flow of loops in C++.

🔹 break Statement

• Immediately exits the loop.
• Used to terminate a loop when a condition is met.

🔹 continue Statement

• Skips the current iteration and moves to the next iteration.
• Used to bypass certain iterations in a loop.

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1️⃣ Printing Numbers in C++ (Using break)

📌 Example: Print numbers from 1 to 10, but stop when the number is 5.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main() {
    for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
        if (i == 5) {
            break;  // Stops the loop when i is 5
        }
        cout << i << " ";
    }
    return 0;
}

🔹 Output

1 2 3 4

✅ The loop stops when i == 5.

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2️⃣ Printing Continuous Numbers in C++ (Using continue)

📌 Example: Print numbers from 1 to 10, but skip 5.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main() {
    for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
        if (i == 5) {
            continue;  // Skips when i is 5
        }
        cout << i << " ";
    }
    return 0;
}

🔹 Output

1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10

✅ continue skips 5 but keeps printing other numbers.

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3️⃣ Printing Even Numbers (Using continue)

📌 Example: Print even numbers from 1 to 10.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main() {
    for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
        if (i % 2 != 0) {  
            continue;  // Skip odd numbers
        }
        cout << i << " ";
    }
    return 0;
}

🔹 Output

2 4 6 8 10

✅ continue skips odd numbers and prints only even numbers.

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4️⃣ Printing Odd Numbers (Using continue)

📌 Example: Print odd numbers from 1 to 10.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main() {
    for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
        if (i % 2 == 0) {  
            continue;  // Skip even numbers
        }
        cout << i << " ";
    }
    return 0;
}

🔹 Output

1 3 5 7 9

✅ continue skips even numbers and prints only odd numbers.

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📌 Summary

Statement	Function
break	Exits the loop completely
continue	Skips the current iteration but continues the loop

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