Question

In nested loops, the continue statement, if present within a nested if structure, will exit the ____________

(a) If structure

(b) nested if structure

(c) entire loop

(d) present iteration

This question was posed to me by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.

This interesting question is from More about Loops in portion MATLAB Programming of MATLAB

Answer 1

Right answer is (b) nested if structure

Easiest explanation: If the continue statement is present deep-rooted in a nested if structure, it will only stop the current iteration. It won’t exit the current ongoing loop or the external loop.