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continue
Availability
Flash Player 4.
Usage
continue
Parameters
None.
Returns
Nothing.
Description
Statement; jumps past all remaining statements in the innermost loop and starts the next iteration
of the loop as if control had passed through to the end of the loop normally. It has no effect
outside a loop.
Example
In the following
body and jump to the top of the loop, where the condition is tested:
trace("example 1");
var i:Number = 0;
while (i<10) {
if (i%3 == 0) {
i++;
continue;
}
trace(i);
i++;
}
In the following
body and jump to the bottom of the loop, where the condition is tested:
trace("example 2");
var i:Number = 0;
do {
if (i%3 == 0) {
i++;
continue;
}
trace(i);
i++;
} while (i<10);
In a loop,
for continue
following example, if the i modulo 3 equals 0, then the
trace("example 3");
for (var i = 0; i<10; i++) {
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loop,
while continue
loop,
do while continue
causes the Flash interpreter to skip the rest of the loop body. In the
causes the Flash interpreter to skip the rest of the loop
causes the Flash interpreter to skip the rest of the loop
trace(i)
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statement is skipped: