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Duhan Ali
Duhan Ali

Reputation: 49

Is it possible to use continue in conditional operator? in c language

I am going to print no if for loop i is not divided by 3 and otherwise continue the loop

(i%3==0)? continue : (printf("no"));

am getting error on this line

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2194

Answers (3)

dbush
dbush

Reputation: 224577

This will not work as the conditional operator is part of an expression whose value is either the second or third clause, and continue is a statement.

The conditional operator can be used in ways such as this:

days_in_february = is_leap_year() ? 29 : 28;

So now imagine if what you wanted was allowed. If you did this:

val = (i%3==0)? continue : (printf("no"));

Then what would value be set to if the condition was true? continue is not an expression and therefore doesn't "have a value" so such a statement wouldn't make sense.

You need to use a standard if statement to accomplish this:

if (i%3==0) {
    continue;
} else {
    printf("no");
}

Upvotes: 1

Harun
Harun

Reputation: 11

I would say you can do it with while loop easily :

while(1){

if(i%3 == 0)
    i = i % 3;
}else{
    printf_s("no");
    break;
}

Upvotes: 1

R Z
R Z

Reputation: 520

No. In a ternary operator, both of the values must be expressions. continue is a statement, not an expression. Use an if statement instead.

Upvotes: 3

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