continue keyword in C

In some programming situations we want to take the control to the beginning of the loop, bypassing the statements inside the loop, which have not yet been executed. The keyword continue allows us to do this. When continue is encountered inside any loop, control automatically passes to the beginning of the loop

A continue is usually associated with an if. As an example, let’s consider the following program

main( ) 
{ 
 int i, j ; 
 for ( i = 1 ; i <= 2 ; i++ ) 
 { 
 for ( j = 1 ; j <= 2 ; j++ ) 
 { 
 if ( i == j ) 
 continue ; 
 printf ( "\n%d %d\n", i, j ) ; 
 } 
 } 
}

The output of the above program would be…

1 2
2 1