This piece of code is from the Sun Java Tutorial

class ContinueDemo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        String searchMe = "peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers";
        int max = searchMe.length();
        int numPs = 0;

        for (int i = 0; i < max; i++) {
            //interested only in p's
            if (searchMe.charAt(i) != 'p')
                continue;

            //process p's
            numPs++;
        }
        System.out.println("Found " + numPs + " p's in the string.");
    }
}

I'm wondering if there is any real point to using continue in the spot
where they do, or if they are just trying to illustrate a point, because
to me, the code would make much more sense if it were written like this:

class ContinueDemo2 {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        String searchMe = "peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers";
        int max = searchMe.length();
        int numPs = 0;

        for (int i = 0; i < max; i++) {
            //interested only in p's
            if (searchMe.charAt(i) == 'p')
            //process p's
            numPs++;
        }
        System.out.println("Found " + numPs + " p's in the string.");
    }
}

The result is 9 both ways, so unless this is just an illustration of the
use of continue, I see no point for it.