Skipping a line and reading another line in shell script while loop

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Published on 2012-04-13T11:23:49Z Indexed on 2012/04/13 11:30 UTC
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i have a code which reads a file line by line using a while loop. Inside the while loop, i have certain conditions. Is there a way using which i can skip the current line and read the next line based upon the condition ? Let me be precise:

while read Line
do
    //some sample conditions
    a=$Line
    if [ "a" == "b" ]
        //i want to go to the next line from this point. 
done < **inputfile**

Any help would be appreciated.

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