statements-c.md

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Statements (C)

The statements of a C program control the flow of program execution. In C, as in other programming languages, several kinds of statements are available to perform loops, to select other statements to be executed, and to transfer control. Following a brief overview of statement syntax, this section describes the C statements in alphabetical order:

break statement	if statement
compound statement	null statement
continue statement	return statement
do-while statement	switch statement
expression statement	try-except statement
for statement	try-finally statement
goto and labeled statements	while statement

See Also

C Language Reference