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Example for continue 

for i in [series]
do
    command 1
    command 2
    if (condition) # Condition to jump over command 3
            continue # skip to the next value in "series"
    fi
    command 3
done

Example for break 

for i in [series]
do
    command 4
    if (condition) # Condition to break the loop
    then
            command 5 # Command if the loop needs to be broken
            break
    fi
    command 6 # Command to run if the "condition" is never true 
done
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Control structures:
* Control Structures
* Conditional execution of command lists
* If statement
* Looping over an array
* Using For Loop to List Iterate Over Numbers
* Loop break
* For Loop with C-style syntax
* continue and break
* While Loop
* Switch statement with case
* For Loop without a list-of-words parameter
* Until Loop
* For Loop
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