Top "While-loop" questions

Is using a while block to do nothing a bad thing?

I'm currently working through the excercises in 'The C Programming Language'. Here's one of my solutions: int c; while ((c=…

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Post Increment in while loop in C

Here is a very simple C program: int main() { int i = 0; while(i++ < 10) printf("%d\n", i); return 0; } The …

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How do you loop through a multiline string in Ruby?

Pretty simple question from a first-time Ruby programmer. How do you loop through a slab of text in Ruby? Everytime …

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FPDF Page Break Question

I am using PHP and FPDF to generate a PDF with a list of items. My problem is if the …

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While loops using Await Async.

This Javascript function seems to use the while loop in an asynchronous way. Is it the correct way to use …

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Which is faster in SQL, While loop, Recursive Stored proc, or Cursor?

Which is faster in SQL, While loop, Recursive Stored proc, or Cursor? I want to optimize the performance in a …

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Using FOR loop in VHDL with a variable

Is there any possible way to create a for loop in the form: for i in 0 to some_var loop // …

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JavaScript while mousedown

var mdflag; var count = 0; document.addEventListener("mousedown",mdown,false); document.addEventListener("mouseup",mup,false); } function mdown() { mdflag=true; while(mdflag) …

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How to implement a do-while loop in tsql

I'm trying to figure how to implement this in TSQL do update stuff set col = 'blah' where that_row = 'the …

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Counting digits using while loop

I was recently making a program which needed to check the number of digits in a number inputted by the …

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