What is the "continue" keyword and how does it work in Java?

Question

I saw this keyword for the first time and I was wondering if someone could explain to me what it does.

• What is the continue keyword?
• How does it work?
• When is it used?

Answer 1

continue is kind of like goto. Are you familiar with break? It's easier to think about them in contrast:

• break terminates the loop (jumps to the code below it).

• continue terminates the rest of the processing of the code within the loop for the current iteration, but continues the loop.