This article explains some very useful concepts of C#, these are also called loops. I'll explain and differentiate them with an example.
![Loop in C#]()
Break Statement
A Break statement breaks out of the loop at the current point or we can say that it terminates the loop condition.
It is represented by break;
Continue Statement
A Continue statement jumps out of the current loop condition and jumps back to the starting of the loop code.
It is represented by continue;
Example | Break vs Continue
This example shows the functioning of both of the statements together, afterwards I'll explain them one by one with their functionality.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
namespace Hello
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i <= 10; i++)
{
if (i == 5)
continue;
if (i == 8)
break;
Console.WriteLine("value is" +i);
}
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
Output Window
![Break and Continue]()
Explanation
In this example the output is from 0 to 7 except 5, 8, 9?
CASE 1: It is because in the first case:
if (i == 5)
continue;In other words it will skip the current loop and jump to the top of the loop, so there is no 5 in the output window.
CASE 2: In second cases:
if (i == 8)
break;
It will terminate the loop or get out of it when the value becomes 8, so there is no 8 or 9 in the output window.
Now let's do some changes in the code and see what happens, here we go.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
namespace Hello
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i <= 10; i++)
{
if (i == 5)
continue;
// if (i == 8)
// break;
Console.WriteLine("value is: " +i);
}
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
Now you can see the output. The condition continues to flow depending on the continue statement functioning.
Now I am making some other modifications, in the code snippet, as:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
namespace Hello
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i <= 10; i++)
{
// if (i == 5)
// continue;
if (i == 8)
break;
Console.WriteLine("value is: " +i);
}
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
Now you can see, it is again showing from 0 to 7 and because of the break statement condition, it's again out of the loop so there is no 8, 9 or 10.