The break and continue statements: more examples

Let's return to our program that recognizes the largest among the entered numbers. We'll convert it twice, using the break and continue instructions.

Analyze the code, and judge whether and how you would use either of them.

The break variant goes here:

largestNumber = -99999999 counter = 0 while True: number = int(input("Enter a number or type -1 to end program: ")) if number == -1: break counter += 1 if number > largestNumber: largestNumber = number if counter != 0: print("The largest number is", largestNumber) else: print("You haven't entered any number.")

Run it, test it, and experiment with it.

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And now the continue variant:

largestNumber = -99999999 counter = 0 number = int(input("Enter a number or type -1 to end program: ")) while number != -1: if number == -1: continue counter += 1 if number > largestNumber: largestNumber = number number = int(input("Enter a number or type -1 to end program: ")) if counter: print("The largest number is", largestNumber) else: print("You haven't entered any number.")

Again - run it, test it, and experiment with it.

 

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