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    Control statements in C allow programmers to alter the sequential flow of a program. There are three main types of control statements: decision statements use conditions to determine whether code executes, looping statements repeatedly execute code for a set number of iterations or until a condition is met, and jump statements can unconditionally transfer control to another part of the program. Common decision statements include if/else and switch/case statements, common looping statements include for, while, and do/while loops, and the goto statement provides an unconditional jump to a labeled block of code.

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    Control statements in C allow programmers to alter the sequential flow of a program. There are three main types of control statements: decision statements use conditions to determine whether code executes, looping statements repeatedly execute code for a set number of iterations or until a condition is met, and jump statements can unconditionally transfer control to another part of the program. Common decision statements include if/else and switch/case statements, common looping statements include for, while, and do/while loops, and the goto statement provides an unconditional jump to a labeled block of code.

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    Control statements in C allow programmers to alter the sequential flow of a program. There are three main types of control statements: decision statements use conditions to determine whether code executes, looping statements repeatedly execute code for a set number of iterations or until a condition is met, and jump statements can unconditionally transfer control to another part of the program. Common decision statements include if/else and switch/case statements, common looping statements include for, while, and do/while loops, and the goto statement provides an unconditional jump to a labeled block of code.

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    Control Statements in C

    In C, the control flows from one instruction to the next instruction until now in all
    programs. This control flow from one command to the next is called sequential
    control flow. Nonetheless, in most C programs the programmer may want to skip
    instructions or repeat a set of instructions repeatedly when writing logic. This can be
    referred to as sequential control flow. The declarations in C let programmers make
    such decisions which are called decision-making or control declarations.

    Types of Control Statements in C

    Decision statement

    Decision statement is condition based statement. It define single or set of conditions that
    must be satisfied before statement/s can execute. For example, allow amount
    withdrawal from ATM, only if pin validation succeeds. These situations are handled
    using decision statements.

    Decision statements are also known as conditional or branching statement. In


    decision statement we will learn about -

    1. Simple if statement
    2. if...else
    3. if...else...if statement
    4. Nested if...else statement
    5. Switch...case
    Looping statement

    Looping statement defines a set of repetitive statements . These statements are


    repeated, with same or different parameters for a number of times.

    In programming, there exists situations when you need to repeat single or a group of
    statements till some condition is met. Such as - read all files of a directory.
    Looping statements are also known as iterative or repetitive statement.

    There are three types of looping statement in C.

    1. for loop
    2. while loop
    3. do...while loop

    Jump statements

    Unlike conditional and looping statement, jump statement provides unconditional


    way to transfer control from one part of program to other.

    C supports three jump statements.

    1. break
    2. continue
    3. goto

    The goto statement is known as jump statement in C. As the name suggests, goto is
    used to transfer the program control to a predefined label. The goto statment can be
    used to repeat some part of the code for a particular condition. It can also be used to
    break the multiple loops which can't be done by using a single break statement.
    However, using goto is avoided these days since it makes the program less readable
    and complecated.

    Syntax

    The syntax for a goto statement in C is as follows −

    goto label;

    ..

    label: statement;

    Here label can be any plain text except C keyword and it can be set anywhere in the
    C program above or below to goto statement.

    Flow Diagram
    Example

    #include <stdio.h>

    int main () {

    /* local variable definition */

    int a = 10;

    /* do loop execution */

    LOOP:do {

    if( a == 15) {

    /* skip the iteration */

    a = a + 1;

    goto LOOP;

    printf("value of a: %d\n", a);

    a++;

    }while( a < 20 );

    return 0;

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