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Encyclopedia: While loop

In most computer programming languages, a while loop is a control flow statement that allows code to be executed repeatedly based on a given boolean condition. The while loop can be thought of as a repeating if statement.

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How to say "While loop" in other languages:

	(Japanese)	While文
	(German)	While-Schleife
	(Spanish)	Bucle while

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Do while loop

In most computer programming languages, a do while loop is a control structure that allows code to... condition becomes false. Because do while loops check the condition after the block is executed, the control structure is often also known as a post-test loop . Compare with the while loop, which tests...

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Conditional loop

-time by the actual program. There are several different condition loop implementation for every computer language, but many share the same basic structure and/or concept. The While loop and the For... Conditional loops (a.k.a. " Repetitive Control structures ") are ways for computer programs to...

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For loop

In most computer programming languages, a for loop is a control structure which allows code to be executed iteratively. For loop, unlike while loops, are usually passed three arguments, although this... the loop, a boolean condition, and a statement to be executed following every iteration of the loop...

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Off-by-one error

"do-while" and a "while" loop in C programming is not familiarized. The former is guaranteed to run... An off-by-one error in computer programming is an avoidable error in which a loop iterates one too... C programming language, a loop that iterates five times would be written as follows: for(int i = 0...

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Edsger Dijkstra

the GOTO statement and its effective replacement by control structures such as the while loop. The...

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QBasic

while loops. Line numbers, a concept often associated with BASIC, were supported for compatibility, but... Shift+F5 to restart a program back from the beginning. Press F4 while program execution is broken...

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Indent style

while loop), and tabs out the blocked statements. while(x == y) { something; somethingelse; } The... while loop), and tabs out the blocked statements. while(x == y) { something; somethingelse; } The... equivalent to eight characters, while Macintosh environments would set them to four, creating confusion...

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Green River (Utah)

much of the northeastern portion of the state while looping for 40 mi (64 km) into western Colorado..., looping around the eastern tip of the Uinta Mountains, from Utah into northwestern Colorado, then south...

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Modular exponentiation

, 0471117099, uses a single while loop to perform all work necessary to compute the modular exponentiation. Note that upon entering the loop for the first time, the code variable base is equivalent to b...), and m is the modulus. Bignum modpow(Bignum base, Bignum exp, Bignum m) { Bignum result = 1; while...

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S2 programming language

loops over finite sets (however, it distinctly lacks while loops). Being object-oriented, S2 allows... used to translate the core layer, while i18n layers are used to translate a layout. In its simplest...

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