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THE continue STATEMENT

                  The continue statement causes the program to skip the rest of the statements in the current block
                  and move to the next iteration of the loop. It immediately transfers control to the evaluation of the
                  test expression of the loop for the next iteration of the loop.


                  Program 6: To demonstrate the use of the continue statement in a loop.

                      Program6.py
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                   #Program to show the use of the continue statement

                   for number in range(0, 12):
                       if(number == 8):
                           continue

                       print('Number is:', number)
                   print('Out of loop')





                  On running the program, we get the following output:

                      Output

                   Number is: 0
                   Number is: 1
                   Number is: 2

                   Number is: 3
                   Number is: 4
                   Number is: 5
                   Number is: 6
                   Number is: 7
                   Number is: 9

                   Number is: 10
                   Number is: 11
                   Out of loop




                  The example above prints all the numbers except 5 because when the value of i is equal to
                  5, the continue statement placed inside the if statement will force the program to skip the

                  iteration.








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