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noUnnecessaryContinue

Diagnostic Category: lint/correctness/noUnnecessaryContinue

Since: v1.0.0

Avoid using unnecessary continue.

Examples

Section titled Examples

Invalid

Section titled Invalid
loop: for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
  continue loop;
}
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  ✖ Unnecessary continue statement
  
    1 │ loop: for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
  > 2 │   continue loop;
      │   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    3 │ }
    4 │ 
  
  ℹ Unsafe fix: Delete the unnecessary continue statement
  
    1 1 │   loop: for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
    2   │ - ··continue·loop;
    3 2 │   }
    4 3 │   
  
while (i--) {
  continue;
}
code-block.js:2:3 lint/correctness/noUnnecessaryContinue  FIXABLE  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ✖ Unnecessary continue statement
  
    1 │ while (i—) {
  > 2 │   continue;
      │   ^^^^^^^^^
    3 │ }
    4 │ 
  
  ℹ Unsafe fix: Delete the unnecessary continue statement
  
    1 1 │   while (i—) {
    2   │ - ··continue;
    3 2 │   }
    4 3 │   
  
while (1) {
  continue;
}
code-block.js:2:3 lint/correctness/noUnnecessaryContinue  FIXABLE  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ✖ Unnecessary continue statement
  
    1 │ while (1) {
  > 2 │   continue;
      │   ^^^^^^^^^
    3 │ }
    4 │ 
  
  ℹ Unsafe fix: Delete the unnecessary continue statement
  
    1 1 │   while (1) {
    2   │ - ··continue;
    3 2 │   }
    4 3 │   
  
for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
  if (i > 5) {
    console.log("foo");
    continue;
  } else if (i >= 5 && i < 8) {
    console.log("test");
  } else {
    console.log("test");
  }
}
code-block.js:4:5 lint/correctness/noUnnecessaryContinue  FIXABLE  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ✖ Unnecessary continue statement
  
    2 │   if (i > 5) {
    3 │     console.log(“foo”);
  > 4 │     continue;
      │     ^^^^^^^^^
    5 │   } else if (i >= 5 && i < 8) {
    6 │     console.log(“test”);
  
  ℹ Unsafe fix: Delete the unnecessary continue statement
  
     2  2 │     if (i > 5) {
     3  3 │       console.log(“foo”);
     4    │ - ····continue;
     5  4 │     } else if (i >= 5 && i < 8) {
     6  5 │       console.log(“test”);
  
for (let i = 0; i < 9; i++) {
  continue;
}
code-block.js:2:3 lint/correctness/noUnnecessaryContinue  FIXABLE  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ✖ Unnecessary continue statement
  
    1 │ for (let i = 0; i < 9; i++) {
  > 2 │   continue;
      │   ^^^^^^^^^
    3 │ }
    4 │ 
  
  ℹ Unsafe fix: Delete the unnecessary continue statement
  
    1 1 │   for (let i = 0; i < 9; i++) {
    2   │ - ··continue;
    3 2 │   }
    4 3 │   
  
test2: do {
  continue test2;
} while (true);
code-block.js:2:2 lint/correctness/noUnnecessaryContinue  FIXABLE  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ✖ Unnecessary continue statement
  
    1 │ test2: do {
  > 2 │ 	continue test2;
      │ 	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    3 │ } while (true);
    4 │ 
  
  ℹ Unsafe fix: Delete the unnecessary continue statement
  
    1 1 │   test2: do {
    2   │ - → continue·test2;
    3 2 │   } while (true);
    4 3 │

Valid

Section titled Valid
while (i) {
  if (i > 5) {
    continue;
  }
  console.log(i);
  i--;
}


loop: while (1) {
  forLoop: for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
    if (someCondition) {
      continue loop;
    }
  }
}
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