C# Goto Statement

In this chapter you will learn:

• What is goto statement in C#?
• What is the functionality of goto statement?
• How to use goto statement in C# programming?

The goto statement is a jump statement that controls the execution of the program to another segment of the same program. You create a label at anywhere in the program then can pass the execution control via the goto statements.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace goto_statements
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string name;

        label: //creating label with colon(:)

            Console.WriteLine("Enter your name: ");
            name = Console.ReadLine();

            Console.WriteLine("Welcome {0}", name);
            Console.WriteLine("Press Ctrl + C for Exit\n");

            goto label; //jump to label statement           
        }
    }
}

Output

Enter your name :

Steven

Welcome Steven

Press Ctrl + C for ExitEnter your name :

Clark

Welcome Clark

Press Ctrl + C for ExitEnter your name :

Steven Clark

Welcome Steven Clark

Press Ctrl + C for Exit



Enter your name : __

Summary

In this chapter, you learned what goto statement is in C# and how to use it in programming. In next chapter you will learn about break statement in C#.