break and continue change the normal flow of a loop. break ends the innermost enclosing loop (or switch) immediately, and execution continues with the statement after it. continue skips the rest of the current iteration and goes straight to the next one. In a for loop, continue still runs the update expression (such as i++) before testing the condition again; in a while or do-while loop it jumps to the condition test.
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