The main difference between break and continue is, break statement is used to break the loop execution based on some conditional expression, whereas the continue statement skips the code that comes after it in a loop and begins a new iteration based on a certain condition.

Difference Between Continue And Break Statement in C++ in Tabular Form

Break Statement

A break statement is a control statement that terminates the execution of a loop or a block in which it occurs. Therefore, it breaks the flow of a program.

In C++, the break statement is mainly used in these two cases :

a) Within a loop: When a break is triggered in a loop, it stops the loop execution immediately and transfers the control to the very next statement after it.

In the case of a nested loop, if a break is present in an inner loop, then it would terminate only the execution of that particular loop only.

b) In Switch Statement: In order to prevent consecutive execution of cases, every case in the switch statement comes with a break statement.

Syntax :

break ;

C++ program to show the working of Break Statement : 

#include<iostream> 
using namespace std; 
int main() {
    for(int a=0;a<5;a++) 
    {if(a==3) 
    break; 
    cout<<a<<" ";
    } 
    return 0; 
}

Output :

0 1 2

Continue Statement

It only terminates the current iteration of the loop and starts the next iteration again, without processing statements that come after it within the enclosing loop body. It is used with looping statements only.

In simple words, it skips the current iteration and jumps to the next loop iteration without executing statements in the loop body that comes after it.

Syntax : 

continue ;

C++ program to show the working of Continue Statement : 

#include<iostream> 
using namespace std; 
int main() 
{ 
    for(int a=0;a<5;a++) 
    { 
        if(a==3) 
        continue; 
        cout<<a<<" "; 
    } 
    return 0; 
}

Output : 

0 1 2 4