Go Continue

Summary: in this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Go continue statement to skip the remaining code in the current iteration of the loop and start the new iteration.

In Go, the continue statement skips the remaining code of the current iteration inside a loop and moves to the next iteration:

continueCode language: Go (go)

Typically, you’ll use the continue statement with an if statement to control the flow of a loop based on a specific condition:

if condition {
   continue
}Code language: Go (go)

In this syntax, if the condition is true, the continue statement will run that skips the remaining code in the current iteration and starts a new one.

For example, the following program uses the continue statement to skip the fmt.Println(i) line whenever i is even. As a result, it only prints the odd numbers:

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
	for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
    	if i%2 == 0 {
        	continue
    	}
    	fmt.Println(i)
	}
}Code language: Go (go)

Output:

1
3
5
7
9Code language: Go (go)

Summary

• Use the continue statement to skip the remaining code of the current iteration and start a new one.