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Control Structures in C

Control structure are C language statements used to control or change the flow of a program.  Control structures are divided into three categories:

• Selection Statements
• Iterative/Looping Statements
• Jumping Statements

1. Selection statements

Selection statements execute a set of statements depending upon some Condition. They are categorized into two types:

• if statement
• switch statement
  

2. Looping statements

They are used to repeat a set of statements depending upon some condition. They are categorized into three types:

• for statement
• while statement
• do while statement

3. Jumping statements

They are used to transfer the pointer of program control from one point to another point within a program. There are categorized into three types.

• break
• continue
• goto

Lesson tags: conditional statements of c, control statements of c, control structures of c

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