What is the purpose of a continue statement?

[c0d3rX]

Does anyone have any good coding examples which use a continue statement. I'm fairly new to C programming and am unfamiliar with continue statements.

[Jason4567]

Definition:The continue statement in C programming forces the next iteration of the loop to take place, skipping any code in between.
Here is also a simple example:
If you run it you will notice that the 3 number is not printed because we have made a condition that if i = 3 then it skips this i and moves to the next i and it prints it.

#include <stdio.h>

int main(){
    int i;
    for (i=0;i<=9;i++){
	if (i == 3){
	    continue;
	}else{
	    printf("%d\n",i);
	}
    }
}