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Statements (C)

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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
compound statement
continue statement
do-while statement
expression statement

for statement
goto and labeled statements
if statement
null statement
return statement

switch statement
try-except statement
try-finally statement
while statement

See also

C Language Reference