CONTINUE

Establishes reference point within a program unit.

Syntax

CONTINUE

Description

The CONTINUE statement has no effect on program execution. Control passes to the next executable statement. The CONTINUE statement is generally used to mark a place for a statement label, especially when it occurs as the terminal statement of a FORTRAN 77-style DO loop.

Examples

count = 0
DO 20 i = 1, 10
   count = count + i
20 CONTINUE
PRINT *, count

Related statements

DO

Related concepts

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