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Posted by Shayan Khan
Shayan Khan
9,842 Points

what is a while loop?

i cant understand what is a while loop and how to use it

1 Answer

Saskia Lund
Saskia Lund
5,673 Points

A while loop allows you to tell your program to run a certain piece of code repeatedly until a certain condition defined, is not true anymore.

while (someuserinput >= 0) { // As long as someuserinput is greater or equal to 0 the program will repeat/cycle through the code inserted in the curly braces.
        your code that needs to be executed as long as the condition is true
    }

Hope this helped