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Avoiding the goto keyword

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Avoiding the goto keyword

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- The goto keyword alters program flow but does so in a manner that's difficult to follow, therefore its use isn't recommended, or even necessary. This exercise file shows the goto construction, the keyword at line 11 is followed by a label which indicates where execution jumps. The label is located at line seven. The name is followed by a colon, not a semicolon, this is the label format in C. The label naming convention is the same as for a variable name. The goto jump works only within a function, so both goto and its label must exist here within the main function. Effectively, this code is a loop, it goes down from 10 to one. Build and run. There you go. Better ways are available to generate this same output without using goto, further, you can't use the break keyword to disrupt this loop, because the loop really isn't implemented here, there's nothing to break. Here you see one way to…

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