Action
The CONTINUE statement will skip code inside a loop till the end of the loop.
Syntax
CONTINUE
Remarks
CONTINUE must be used inside a DO-LOOP, WHILE-WEND or FOR-NEXT loop.
The code jump is always inside the current loop.
Some times you want to skip some code without leaving a loop. You can solve this with a GOTO and a label but use of GOTO creates hard to understand code. For this reason some languages have the CONTINUE statement.
DO-LOOP
DO
some code here
some code here
CONTINUE_WILL_JUMP_TO_THIS_POINT
LOOP
WHILE-WEND
WHILE <CONDIITON>
some code here
some code here
CONTINUE_WILL_JUMP_TO_THIS_POINT
WEND
FOR-NEXT
FOR VAR=START TO END
some code here
some code here
CONTINUE_WILL_JUMP_TO_THIS_POINT
NEXT
See also
Example
'-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' REDO and CONTINUE example
'
'-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$regfile = "m128def.dat"
$hwstack = 32
$swstack = 16
$FrameSize = 24
dim b as byte
const test = 0
#if test = 0
for b = 1 to 10
'when REDO is used, the code will continue here
print b
if b = 3 then
continue ' when b becomes 3, the code will continue at the NEXT statement
end if
if b = 9 then exit for
if b = 8 then
redo ' when b becomes 8, the code will continue after the FOR statement, it will not increase the variable B !
'so in this example the loop will be forever
end if
print b
'code continues here when CONTINUE is used
next
#elseif test = 1
b = 0
do
incr b
if b = 2 then
continue
elseif b = 3 then
redo
end if
loop until b > 5
#elseif test = 2
b = 0
while b < 5
incr b
if b = 2 then
continue
elseif b = 3 then
redo
end if
wend
#endif
end