Should I ever use continue inside a switch statement?

Question

I noticed you can indeed use the continue keyword in a switch statement, but on PHP it doesn't do what I expected.

If it fails with PHP, who knows how many other languages it fails too? If I switch between languages a lot, this can be a problem if the code doesn't behave like I expect it to behave.

Should I just avoid using continue in a switch statement then?

PHP (5.2.17) fails:

for($p = 0; $p < 8; $p++){     switch($p){         case 5:             print"($p)";             continue;             print"*"; // just for testing...         break;         case 6:             print"($p)";             continue;             print"*";         break;     }     print"$p\r\n"; } /* Output: 0 1 2 3 4 (5)5 (6)6 7 */ 

C++ seems to work as expected (jumps to end of for loop):

for(int p = 0; p < 8; p++){     switch(p){         case 5:             cout << "(" << p << ")";             continue;             cout << "*"; // just for testing...         break;         case 6:             cout << "(" << p << ")";             continue;             cout << "*";         break;     }     cout << p << "\r\n"; } /* Output: 0 1 2 3 4 (5)(6)7 */ 

Answer 1

Try using continue 2 to continue to the next iteration of the loop surrounding the switch statement.

EDIT:

    $foo = 'Hello';      for ($p = 0; $p < 8; $p++) {          switch($p) {              case 3:                  if ($foo === 'Hello') {                      echo $foo;                      break;                  } else {                       continue 2;                  }               default:                  echo "Sleeping...<br>";                  continue 2;           }           echo "World!";          break;     } 

//This will print: Sleeping... Sleeping... Sleeping... Hello World!