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title: Continue Control Statement
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# Continue Control Statement
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The `continue` statement makes a loop skip all the following lines after the continue and jump ahead to the beginning of the next iteration. In a `for` loop, control jumps to the update statement, and in a `while` or `do while` loop, control jumps to the boolean expression/condition.
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```java
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for (int j = 0; j < 10; j++)
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{
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if (j == 5)
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{
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continue;
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}
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System.out.print (j + " ");
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}
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```
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The value of `j` will be printed for each iteration, except when it is equal to `5`. The print statement will get skipped because of the `continue` and the output will be:
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0 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9
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Say you want to count the number of `i`s in a the word `mississippi`. Here you could use a loop with the `continue` statement, as follows:
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```java
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String searchWord = "mississippi";
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// max stores the length of the string
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int max = searchWord.length();
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int numPs = 0;
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for (int i = 0; i < max; i++)
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{
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// We only want to count i's - skip other letters
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if (searchWord.charAt(i) != 'i')
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{
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continue;
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}
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// Increase count_i for each i encountered
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numPs++;
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}
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System.out.println("numPs = " + numPs);
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```
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 <a href='https://repl.it/CJZH/0' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Run Code</a>
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Additionally, you can use labels to choose a specific loop out of a nested set to skip to the next iteration.
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