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Question

Hi All,
I have recently started learning the Java language. I came across this example and had a problem in understanding the output of the program. I could follow that if the continue statement is present in the below program the output is "Found 9 p's in the string" . But if the continue statement is removed I could not understand why the output would be "Found 35 p's in the string" .Is it because of the spaces and characters other than p... (eter ier icked a eck of ickled eers)
Example-----------------------
The continue statement skips the current iteration of a for, while , or do-while loop. The unlabeled form skips to the end of the innermost loop's body and evaluates the boolean expression that controls the loop. The following program, ContinueDemo , steps through a String, counting the occurences of the letter "p". If the current character is not a p, the continue statement skips the rest of the loop and proceeds to the next character. If it is a "p", the program increments the letter count.
class ContinueDemo {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String searchMe
= "peter piper picked a " +
"peck of pickled peppers";
int max = searchMe.length();
int numPs = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < max; i++) {
// interested only in p's
if (searchMe.charAt(i) != 'p')
continue;
// process p's
numPs++;
System.out.println("Found " +
numPs + " p's in the string.");
Here is the output of this program:
Found 9 p's in the string.
To see this effect more clearly, try removing the continue statement and recompiling. When you run the program again, the count will be wrong, saying that it found 35 p's instead of 9.

Answer 1

The answer is already in your example - "The unlabeled form skips to the end of the innermost loop's body and evaluates the boolean expression that controls the loop."
It unloads the current loop iteration when condition is matching. Loop is again starting from boolean expression inside loop declaration.
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