What is the difference between continue and break statement in C language??

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Continue statement skips the current iteration of a loop and moves to the next one, while break statement terminates the loop.

Continue statement is used to skip a particular iteration of a loop and move to the next one.
Break statement is used to terminate the loop and move to the next statement outside the loop.
Continue statement is used when we want to skip a particular iteration of a loop based on some condition.
Break statement is used when we want to terminate the loop based on some condition.
Example: for(int i=0;i<10;i++){ if(i==5) continue; printf('%d',i); } Output: 012346789
Example: for(int i=0;i<10;i++){ if(i==5) break; printf('%d',i); } Output: 01234

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