Kotlin continue

Kotlin continue

In Kotlin, continue statement is used to skip the execution of the next statements in the loop body, and continue with the next iteration of the loop.

Syntax

The syntax of a continue statement is

continue

where

• continue is keyword.

Usually, continue statement is placed inside an if-statement, so that the continue statement is executed only when a specific condition is met.

Examples

1. Continue While loop

In the following program, we take a While loop to iterate over numbers from 1 to 10. Also, we will place a continue statement inside the loop to execute when the loop is iterating for the number 5.

Kotlin Program

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    val n = 10

    var i = 1
    while (i <= n) {
        if (i == 5) {
            i++
            continue
        }
        println(i)
        i++
    }
}

Output

1
2
3
4
6
7
8
9
10

The element 5 is not printed to output, because continue statement has skipped the execution of the iteration when i==5.

Make sure you update the counter in your While loop when using continue statement.

2. Continue For loop

In the following program, we take a For loop to iterate over a string array. When the string element equals "cherry", we shall continue with the next iteration of the loop using continue statement.

Kotlin Program

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    val fruits = arrayOf("apple", "banana", "cherry", "mango", "fig")
    for (fruit in fruits) {
        if (fruit.equals("cherry")) {
            continue
        }
        println(fruit)
    }
}

Output

apple
banana
mango
fig

The string element "cherry" is not printed because of the continue statement.