C# goto Statement

The goto statement is a jump statement that allows the user in the program to jump the execution control to the other part of the program. When encountered in a program, it transfers the execution flow to the labeled statement. The label (tag) is used to spot the jump statement.

NOTE: Although the use of goto is avoided in programming language because it makes it difficult to trace the control flow of a program, making the program hard to understand and hard to modify.

goto statement Flowchart:

Syntax of goto statement in C#:

goto label;
....
....
label: statement; //label to jump
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statements

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Example of C# goto Statement

// use of goto statement
using System;

public class GotoStatement
{
   static public void Main()
   {
      int selected = 3;
      switch (selected)
      {
         case 1:
            //this is the label
            first_case:
               Console.WriteLine("case: 1");
            break;

         case 2:
            Console.WriteLine("case: 2");
            break;

         case 3:
            Console.WriteLine("case: 3");

            // transfer the flow to case 1
            goto first_case;

         default:
            Console.WriteLine("No match found");
            break;
      }
   }
}

Output:

case: 3
case: 1

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