figure - long strings are trun cated to ensure that they remain certain size controlling execution with the continue statement sometimes you want to check every element in sequencebut don' want to process certain elements for exampleyou might decide that you want to process all the information for every car in database except brown cars perhaps you simply don' need the information about that particular color of car the break clause simply ends the loopso you can' use it in this situation otherwiseyou won' see the remaining elements in the sequence the break clause alternative that many developers use is the continue clause as with the break clausethe continue clause appears as part of an if statement howeverprocessing continues with the next element in the sequence rather than ending completely