Help needed with using continue in loop

[lyle777]

I need help with using continue in my loop.
they say that when using continue in the loop that is nested,
depending on the condition of the continue statement, execution
should jump to the original loop statement and i am having trouble
doing that........... please refere to the code below:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    int x, y;
    
    for(x=0; x>=-50000; x--) { 

             cout << x << "\n";

             if(y>10000) continue;    // my continue statement says that the loop    below should stop at 10000, but it doesnt, it continues all the way to 20000

             for(y=0; y<20000; y++) {     // this 

             cout << y << "\n";
             }
    }
    
    
    cin.get();
    return 0;
}

[Banfa]

You have not understood how continue works

Read a reference source

[whodgson]

In the body of your first loop you talk about the value of variable y which has not yet been initialized.'co ntinue' refers to the loop in whose body it resides. Not the next loop.