/** * ContinueWithLabelDemo.java is an application that compiles * and runs under J2SE 5.0. It requires no other files. * * The purpose of this example is to demonstrate the continue * statement, NOT to show how to search. In a real program, * you'd probably use the String method indexof(String, int). */ public class ContinueWithLabelDemo { public static void main(String[] args) { String searchMe = "Look for a substring in me"; String substring = "sub"; boolean foundIt = false; int max = searchMe.length() - substring.length(); test: for (int i = 0; i <= max; i++) { int n = substring.length(); int j = i; int k = 0; while (n-- != 0) { if (searchMe.charAt(j++) != substring.charAt(k++)) { continue test; } } foundIt = true; break test; } System.out.println(foundIt ? "Found it" : "Didn't find it"); } }