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Document the fact that continue applies to switch

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Rasmus Lerdorf 2003-05-27 14:21:55 +00:00
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language/control-structures.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!-- $Revision: 1.71 $ -->
<!-- $Revision: 1.72 $ -->
<chapter id="control-structures">
<title>Control Structures</title>
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skip the rest of the current loop iteration and continue execution
at the beginning of the next iteration.
</simpara>
<note>
<simpara>
Note that in PHP the
<link linkend="control-structures.switch">switch</link> statement is
considered a looping structure for the purposes of
<literal>continue</literal>.
</simpara>
</note>
<simpara>
<literal>continue</literal> accepts an optional numeric argument
which tells it how many levels of enclosing loops it should skip
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on which value it equals to. This is exactly what the
<literal>switch</literal> statement is for.
</simpara>
<note>
<simpara>
Note that unlike some other languages, the
<link linkend="control-structures.continue">continue</link> statement
applies to switch and acts similar to <literal>break</literal>. If you
have a switch inside a loop and wish to continue to the next iteration of
the outer loop, use <literal>continue 2</literal>.
</simpara>
</note>
<para>
The following two examples are two different ways to write the
same thing, one using a series of <literal>if</literal>