MATLAB continue

The continue statement works within a for or while loop and passes control to the next iteration of the loop.

Syntax:

Following are the points while using a continue statement in MATLAB:

Continue statement passes the control of the execution to the next iteration of a for or while loop.
All remaining statements following the continue statement do not execute for the current iteration.
The continue statement applies only to the body of the loop where it is called, hence in nested loops, it affects the execution of the loop in which it occurs.
The continue statement only works inside a for or while loop, and it can't be used inside a function. But if a function is having a for or while loop, there we can use continue inside the loop.

Flowdiagram of Continue Statement

Example1:

% program to print all numbers divisible by 3 and skip remaining 
a = (1:4:50); % creates row vector from 1 to 50 with a step of 4
for k = 1:numel(a)
    if rem(a(k),3)
        continue
    end
    disp(a(k))
end

Output:

continue with nested if-else

Example:

% program to find number which is divisible by all numbers from 2 to 9
v = [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9];
min = 1;
max = 10000;
    for m = min : max
        if mod(m,v(1))
            continue
        else
            if mod(m,v(2))
                
                continue
            else
                if mod(m,v(3))
                    continue
                else 
                    if mod(m,v(4))
                        continue
                    else
                        if mod(m,v(5))
                            continue
                        else
                            if mod(m,v(6))
                                continue
                            else
                                if mod(m,v(7))
                                    continue
                                else
                                    if mod(m,v(8))
                                        continue
                                    else
                                        disp(['divisible by all :' num2str(m)])
                                        
                                    end
                                end
                            end
                        end
                    end
                    
                end
            end
        end
               
    end  
    disp('....')

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