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CONTINUE

Syntax | Examples | Version History

The CONTINUE statement provides a convenient way to immediately start the next iteration of the enclosing FOR, WHILE, or REPEAT loop.


Note
Do not confuse the CONTINUE statement described here with the .CONTINUE executive command. The two constructs are not related, and serve completely different purposes.


Note
CONTINUE is not allowed within CASE or SWITCH statements. This is in contrast with the C language, which does allow this.

For more information on using CONTINUE and other IDL program control statements, see Program Control.

Syntax

CONTINUE

Examples

This example presents one way (not necessarily the best) to print the even numbers between 1 and 10. 

FOR I = 1,10 DO BEGIN  
   ; If odd, start next iteration:  
   IF (I AND 1) THEN CONTINUE   
   PRINT, I  
ENDFOR

Version History

5.4
Introduced

  IDL Online Help (March 06, 2007)