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# CONTINUE

The CONTINUE statement provides a convenient way to immediately start the next iteration of the enclosing FOR, FOREACH, WHILE, or REPEAT loop.

Note: Do not confuse the CONTINUE statement described here with the .CONTINUE executive command. The two constructs are not related, and serve completely different purposes.

Note: CONTINUE is not allowed within CASE or SWITCH statements. This is in contrast with the C language, which does allow this.

## Examples

This example presents one way (not necessarily the best) to print the even numbers between 1 and 10.

FOR I = 1,10 DO BEGIN

; If odd, start next iteration:

IF (I AND 1) THEN CONTINUE

PRINT, I

ENDFOR

## Syntax

CONTINUE

## Version History

5.4 | Introduced

## See Also

BEGIN...END, BREAK, CASE, FOR, FOREACH, GOTO, IF...THEN...ELSE, REPEAT...UNTIL, SWITCH, WHILE...DO

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