Statements

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Statements specify the flow of control as a program executes. In the absence of specific jump and selection statements, statements are executed sequentially in the order of appearance in the source code. The following table shows the syntax for statements.

C++Builder Statements

statement	labeled-statement compound-statement expression-statement selection-statement iteration-statement jump-statement asm-statement declaration (C++ specific)
labeled-statement:	identifier : statement case constant-expression : statement default : statement
compound-statement:	{ <declaration-list> <statement-list> }
declaration-list:	declaration declaration-list declaration
statement-list:	statement statement-list statement
expression-statement:	<expression> ;
asm-statement:	asm tokens newline asm tokens; asm { tokens; <tokens;>= <tokens;>}
selection-statement:	if ( expression ) statement if ( expression ) statement else statement switch ( expression ) statement
iteration-statement:	while ( expression ) statement do statement while ( expression ) ; for (for-init-statement <expression> ; <expression>) statement
for-init-statement:	expression-statement declaration (C++ specific)
jump-statement:	goto identifier ; continue ; break ; return <expression> ;