C program using switch case using continue and break statement

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Even if control reaches case A or case B? I was going to say, antik is wrong about that. With default it will bail. Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. K-Gun Add a comment. I'd like to share this extract from The C Programming Language reference by Ritchie: The continue statement is related to break , but less often used; it causes the next iteration of the enclosing for , while , or do loop to begin. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Islam Elshahat Islam Elshahat 3 3 silver badges 3 3 bronze badges.

But if has no effect on the behaviour of continue or break. How do you mean it's alike? Matt I mean it will continue the loop in both cases. Neil, okay, confusion averted.

Where on earth did you find this? It's syntactically correct and stylistically okay. Well, I am going to got all Dr.

SlySven: Lexically, it doesn't, but if you don't have a good reason not to make it last, do make it last. It's often confusing if used at other places. Like "do this, unless you get the following unusual values, which should be handled as follows". I would use such a trick as a last resort, not first one.

Peter Mortensen Alexander Poluektov Alexander Poluektov 7, 1 1 gold badge 25 25 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. You can do the same thing with the if However, the syntax of the switch statement is much easier to read and write. The expression is evaluated once and compared with the values of each case label. The - operator entered by the user is stored in the operation variable.

And, two operands Finally, the break statement terminates the switch statement. Course Index Explore Programiz. Popular Tutorials Data Types in C. C for Loop. Arrays in C Programming. Pointers in C. Find roots of a quadratic equation. Print Pyramids and Patterns. Check prime number.