The while loop is the most general type of loop, essentially a continuing if
statement; it will execute while its Boolean expression (or "condition") is true. An infinite loop occurs when the condition never evaluates to false.
For more information see the Wikipedia article.
Examples of while loops[]
Curly bracket programming languages[]
int x = 0; int y = 10; while(x < y){ x++; }
Language: Pascal[]
while (x < y) do begin {Do something.} end;
PHP[]
$i=0; while ($i<10) { // do something $i++; }
Or:
while (true) { // do something if ($a==$b) break; }
Visual Basic[]
Do While x < y ' Do something Loop
Or:
While x < y ' Do something End While
See Also[]
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