Help regarding Loops?

bitong

I'm a little bit confuse with regard to our subject in C..We are now with the Loops..and I was just wondering if given a problem, can you use Do-while loops instead of a for loops or vise versa? are there instances that you must use a Do-while loops instead of a for loops or a while loop? or you can use any types of loops in any given problem?

Sep 9 '06 #1

Banfa

With the use of the break statement any loop can be used to mimic any other loop.

Generally I would use for loops unless I had a specific reason to use a while or do-while loop.

The do-while loop is unique of the 3 in that the loop code clock is always executed at least once. You will sometimes get situations where this is useful.

I would only use the while loop if I didn't really have a control variable that required updating on every iteration.

Sep 9 '06 #2

risby

I'm a little bit confuse with regard to our subject in C..We are now with the Loops..and I was just wondering if given a problem, can you use Do-while loops instead of a for loops or vise versa? are there instances that you must use a Do-while loops instead of a for loops or a while loop? or you can use any types of loops in any given problem?

I tend to think of using a for loop when I know how many interations I want it to do, as when iterating over an array of a known size, and using a while loop when the number of iterations is unknown in advance, perhaps dependent on the users' choice of whether to proceed.

Sep 10 '06 #3