What is the difference b/w Next sentence and continue

venosol · New User Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 43 Location: Bangalore

What is the difference b/w Next sentence and continue ?

What are their advantages ?

Please explain about them.

guptae · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:18 pm

Hi Venu,

Please use search utility before posting new thread . Topic is discussed so many time

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priyamnavada · New User Joined: 24 Dec 2005 Posts: 52 Location: hyderabad

CONTINUE passes the control after the next Explicit scope terminator such as END-IF, END-PERFORM etc....

NEXT Sentence passes the control after the next implicit scope terminator that is period (.).