break and continue statements.
A continue statement returns to the beginning of the innermost enclosing loop without completing the rest of the statements in the body of the loop. If you're in a for loop, the counter is incremented. For example this code fragment skips even elements of an array
for (int i = 0; i < m.length; i++) {
if (m[i] % 2 == 0) continue;
// process odd elements...
}
continue statement is rarely used in practice, perhaps because most of the instances where it's useful have simpler implementations. For instance, the above fragment could equally well have been written as
for (int i = 0; i < m.length; i++) {
if (m[i] % 2 != 0) {
// process odd elements...
}
}
continue in the entire Java 1.0.1 source code for the java packages.