Exit and Continue statements

In VB, the Exit and Continue statements are used to modify the flow of execution in loops and conditional statements.

The Exit statement immediately exits a loop or a Select Case or Do Select statement. When the Exit statement is reached, control passes to the next statement after the loop or the Select Case or Do Select statement.

Here is a VB.NET example that searches for a specific value in a loop and will exit the loop if found:

Dim test_value As Integer = 7
Dim found As Boolean = False
For x As Integer = 1 To 20
    If x = test_value Then
        Found = True
        Exit For
    End If
Next
If found Then
    Console.WriteLine("The search value was found.")
End If

The Continue statement is used to skip to the next loop iteration immediately. When the Continue statement is executed, the loop...