Use the new continue keyword for AL loops
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
Business value
To make AL loops easier to write and read, you can now use the continue keyword in AL loops to continue to the next iteration, just like you are used to in other major programming languages.
Feature details
Like in many other programming languages, AL now supports using continue in loops to trigger the next loop iteration. Before, only the break keyword was supported, but that canceled the whole loop, whereas the continue keyword skips the current loop iteration and proceeds with the next.
To address that members, such as methods or fields in AL, might already be named continue, the continue keyword in loops will not be supported if the context has a member called continue. This is to avoid a breaking change. The compiler will warn about this, but still allow declaring object types with the name continue.
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