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C PROGRAMMING LECTURE
THE LOOP CONTROL STRUCTURE

@ AMITY UNIVERSITY, Gwalior

The LOOP Control Structure

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This involves repeating some portion of the program either a specified number of times or until a particular condition is being satisfied.
There are three methods by way of which we can repeat a part of a program. They are:

Using a for statement

Using a while statement Using a do-while statement

The for Loop

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The operation of the for loop is illustrated as:

START initialize

test TRUE Body of loop increment

FALSE

STOP

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General form of for :

for(initialize counter; test counter; increment counter) { do this; and this; and this; }

Examples
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void main() { int i; for(i=1;i<=10;) { printf(%d\n,i); printf(%d\n,i); i=i+1; } }

(a)

(b) void main() { int i=1; for(;i<=10;) {

i=i+1; } }

The while Loop

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The operation of the while loop is illustrated as: START

initialize

test TRUE Body of loop increment

FALSE

STOP

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General form of while:

initialize loop counter; while (test loop counter using a condition) { do this; and this; increment loop counter; }

Examples
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void main() { int i=1; while(i<=10) { printf(%d\n, i); i=i+1; } }

The do-while Loop

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The operation of the do-while loop is illustrated as: START

initialize Body of loop increment

TRUE test FALSE STOP

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General form of do-while:

do {

this; and this; and this;

} while(this condition is true);

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void main() { int i=1; while(i<=10) { printf(%d\n,i); i++; }

void main() { int i; for(i=1;i<=5;) { printf(%d\n,i); i++; } }

End of Todays Lecture

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