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In Labelled Continue Statement, we give a label/name to a loop.

When this continue statement is encountered with the label/name of the loop, it skips the execution any statement within the loop for the current iteration and continues with the next iteration and condition checking in the labelled loop.

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Labelled continue example

//Labelled continue example

class LabelledContinue
{
public static void main(String... ar)
{


loop:
for(int i=0;i<2;i++)
for(int j=0;j<5;j++)
{	
	if(j==2)
		continue loop;

	System.out.println("i ="+i);
	System.out.println("j ="+j);
}

System.out.println("Out of the loop");

} //main method ends

} //class ends

Output

i =0
j =0
i =0
j =1
i =1
j =0
i =1
j =1
Out of the loop

As you may see in the example, outer for-loop was named outer. When the labelled continue statement was encountered during the iteration, i equals to 0 and j equals to 2, it skipped executing the two print statements in the loop after it and the program continued with the next iteration i.e. i equals to 1 and j equals to 0.

When the labelled continue statement was encountered during the iteration, i equals to 1 and j equals to 2, it skipped executing the two print statements again and continued with the loop(which ended) and finally the print statement, System.out.println() is executed.

Note :

Label outer was mainly for the example and you could even give your own label/name to for loop/while loop in your program.

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