Replace a FOR loop into an infinite one

[danielkun]

I'm building a simple slideshow and would like to exchange the FOR loop below into an infinite loop that will start over with picure 1 when picture 5 has been shown.

Im still new to C and I hope someone can help me

char *inputFile[] = {"/1.jpg","/2.png","/3.jpg","/4.png","/5.png",NULL};
 
for(i=0; NULL != inputFile[i]; i++) {
 
sprintf(max_image_file_path, DATADIR"%s", inputFile[i]);
 
... some code
 
}
 

Making the infinite loop isnt very hard but I dont know how to access the array and start over when I reached nr 5.

Thank you!

[danielkun]

I placed the FOR loop inside a while(1) loop and solved the problem but are there any other (better) ways?

[diwakar09]

I'm building a simple slideshow and would like to exchange the FOR loop below into an infinite loop that will start over with picure 1 when picture 5 has been shown.

Im still new to C and I hope someone can help me

char *inputFile[] = {"/1.jpg","/2.png","/3.jpg","/4.png","/5.png",NULL};
 
for(i=0; NULL != inputFile[i]; i++) {
 
sprintf(max_image_file_path, DATADIR"%s", inputFile[i]);
 
... some code
 
}
 

Making the infinite loop isnt very hard but I dont know how to access the array and start over when I reached nr 5.

Thank you!

yes you are right making for loop into infinite is not a big deal
you can make it

    int i = 0;
  for( i ; i < 6 ; i++)
{
     ......
    if ( inputFile[i] == NULL )
       {   i = 0;
            continue;
        }
}
 

may be this is not the proper code but you have to do some thing like this.
I hope you got it the idea.

otherwise you can find out the lenght of char *array and do some manipulation to make it infinite.

[mattmao]

Hello.

If you want to have an infinite for loop, try this:

for( ; ; )
               {
                  //code block goes here
               }