Is there an equivalent of “continue” in Ruby?

Yes, there is an equivalent of the "continue" keyword in Ruby, and it is called next. In Ruby, when you use the next keyword inside a loop, it skips the rest of the current iteration and immediately proceeds to the next iteration of the loop. This behavior is similar to the "continue" keyword found in languages like C and Java[2][3][8].

For example, if you want to skip odd numbers in a loop that iterates through an array of numbers, you could use next as follows:

numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
numbers.each do |number|
  next if number.odd?
  puts number
end

In this code, next is used to skip the rest of the...