CONTINUE statement
Applies to ❌ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
A safer way to jump to labels than via GOTO is to use EXIT (jumping out of a LOOP, or block, or other statement) or CONTINUE (skipping a LOOP iteration).
Just like Java's continue
, the CONTINUE
statement skips the rest of the current iteration in a loop and continues the next iteration. Some dialects use the ITERATE
statement for this.
Without a label
-- PL/SQL LOOP i := i + 1; CONTINUE WHEN i <= 10; END LOOP;
// All dialects loop( i.set(i.plus(1)), continueWhen(i.gt(10)) )
With a label
-- PL/SQL <<label>> LOOP i := i + 1; CONTINUE label WHEN i <= 10; END LOOP;
// All dialects Label label = label("label"); label.label(loop( i.set(i.plus(1)), continue(label).when(i.le(10)) ))
Notice that continue
is a reserved keyword in the Java language, so the jOOQ API cannot use it as a method name. We've suffixed such conflicts with an underscore: continue_()
.
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