{"id":188,"date":"2024-09-11T16:18:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T09:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gotutorial.org\/?page_id=188"},"modified":"2024-09-11T16:21:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T09:21:27","slug":"go-continue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gotutorial.org\/go-tutorial\/go-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: in this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Go <code>continue<\/code> statement to skip the remaining code in the current iteration of the loop and start the new iteration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Go, the <code>continue<\/code> statement skips the remaining code of the current iteration inside a loop and moves to the next iteration:<\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-1\" data-shcb-language-name=\"Go\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"go\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-go\"><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">continue<\/span><\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-1\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">Go<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">go<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<p>Typically, you&#8217;ll use the <code>continue<\/code> statement with an <a href=\"https:\/\/gotutorial.org\/go-tutorial\/go-if-else\/\">if statement<\/a> to control the flow of a loop based on a specific condition:<\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-2\" data-shcb-language-name=\"Go\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"go\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-go\"><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">if<\/span> condition {\n   <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">continue<\/span>\n}<\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-2\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">Go<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">go<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<p>In this syntax, if the <code>condition<\/code> is true, the <code>continue<\/code> statement will run that skips the remaining code in the current iteration and starts a new one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, the following program uses the <code>continue<\/code> statement to skip the <code>fmt.Println(i)<\/code> line whenever i is even. As a result, it only prints the odd numbers:<\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-3\" data-shcb-language-name=\"Go\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"go\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-go\"><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">package<\/span> main\n\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">import<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"fmt\"<\/span>\n\n<span class=\"hljs-function\"><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">func<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title\">main<\/span><span class=\"hljs-params\">()<\/span><\/span> {\n\t<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">for<\/span> i := <span class=\"hljs-number\">0<\/span>; i &lt; <span class=\"hljs-number\">10<\/span>; i++ {\n    \t<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">if<\/span> i%<span class=\"hljs-number\">2<\/span> == <span class=\"hljs-number\">0<\/span> {\n        \t<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">continue<\/span>\n    \t}\n    \tfmt.Println(i)\n\t}\n}<\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-3\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">Go<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">go<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<p>Output:<\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-4\" data-shcb-language-name=\"Go\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"go\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-go\"><span class=\"hljs-number\">1<\/span>\n<span class=\"hljs-number\">3<\/span>\n<span class=\"hljs-number\">5<\/span>\n<span class=\"hljs-number\">7<\/span>\n<span class=\"hljs-number\">9<\/span><\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-4\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">Go<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">go<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<h2 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