Re: question relates to block label and continue/break control flow
"Shawn" <shaw@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:ekksb3$qod$1@news.nems.noaa.gov...
To reiterate my problem, I just test a smaller code.
This is OK:
public class Demo2 {
public static void main(String[] args)
{
mainForLoop:
for(int i=1; i<=100;i++)
{
if(i%2 == 0) continue mainForLoop;
System.out.println("i= " + i);
}
}
}
This is NOT OK:
public class Demo2 {
public static void main(String[] args)
{
mainForLoop:
{ //newly added
for(int i=1; i<=100;i++)
{
if(i%2 == 0) continue mainForLoop;
System.out.println("i= " + i);
}
} //newly added
}
}
I cannot understand the error message: "continue cannot be used outside of
a loop". Why an extra pair of brackets makes "outside of a loop"?
The label should be directly before the loop it's labeling:
public class Demo2 {
public static void main(String[] args)
{
{ //newly added
mainForLoop:
for(int i=1; i<=100;i++)
{
if(i%2 == 0) continue mainForLoop;
System.out.println("i= " + i);
}
} //newly added
}
}
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