Difference Between Break Statement and Continue Statement in C#

In this blog you will learn about when we use break statement and when continue statement. There is a very minor difference in both statement.

Difference b/w Break and continue statement

 

Using break statement,you can 'jump out of a loop' whereas by using continue statement, you can 'jump over one iteration' and then resume your loop execution.

 

Eg. Break Statement

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Linq;
using  System.Text;

namespace break_example {
Class  brk_stmt {

 public static void main(String [] args) {
 {
  for( int i=0; i<=5; i++) {
  if ( i==4) {
  break;
  }
    Console.ReadLine( “The number is”+i );
    }
   }
  }
}

Output

 

The number is 0;

The number is 1;

The number is 2;

The number is 3;

 

Eg. Continue Statement

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Linq;
using  System.Text;

namespace continue_example {
    Class  cntnu_stmt
    {
        public static void main(String [] args)
        {
            for( int i=0; i<=5; i++)
            {
                 if ( i==4) {
                     continue;
                 }
                 Console.ReadLine( “The number is”+i);
            }
        }
   }
}

Output

 

The number is 0;

The number is 1;

The number is 2;

The number is 3;

The number is 5;