while-loop Questions

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I am learning java as well android. Almost everything that we can perform by while loop those things we can do in for loop. I found a simple condition where using while loop is better than for lo...
Broadway asked 15/7, 2011 at 17:0

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I often use this code pattern: while(true) { //do something if(<some condition>) { break; } } Another programmer told me that this was bad practice and that I should replace it wit...
Tennison asked 24/12, 2008 at 0:28

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Why do some people use while(true){} blocks in their code? How does it work?
Signac asked 16/10, 2010 at 0:23

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Can you please tell me how does this java code work? : public class Main { public static void main (String[] args) { Strangemethod(5); } public static void Strangemethod(int len) { while(len...
Gunsel asked 18/6, 2010 at 14:57

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I've noticed the following code is legal in Python. My question is why? Is there a specific reason? n = 5 while n != 0: print n n -= 1 else: print "what the..." Many beginners accide...
Trilogy asked 21/7, 2010 at 2:49

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In Java it is possible to declare a variable in the initialization part of a for-loop: for ( int i=0; i < 10; i++) { // do something (with i) } But with the while statement this seems not to...
Bloodred asked 4/8, 2016 at 12:7

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Is there a pattern in C to execute a while loop one more time. Currently I'm using while(condition) { condition = process(); // process() could be multiple lines instead of a function call // s...
Unlive asked 6/4, 2015 at 16:25

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I've written a function trailing_zeroes(int n) that returns the number of the trailing zeroes in the binary representation of a number. Example: 4 in binary is 100, so the function in this case ret...
Castellany asked 20/7, 2017 at 17:52

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I am using grep in a while loop to find lines from one file in another file and saving the output to a new file. My file is quite large (226 million lines) and the script is taking forever (12 days...
Grijalva asked 2/1, 2023 at 14:12

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I am a python newbie and have been asked to carry out an exercise: make a program loop until exit is requested by the user hitting <Return> only. So far I have: User = raw_input('Enter <Ca...
Barmen asked 31/8, 2011 at 10:7

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I've seen a bunch of answers on JS about an infinite loop and I thought that it would help for my code but it doesn't seem to be working properly. I have that: var i = 0 while (true) { setTimeo...
Rectum asked 6/8, 2017 at 11:45

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I have a while loop, and I want it to keep running through for 15 minutes. it is currently: while True: #blah blah blah (this runs through, and then restarts. I need it to continue doing this e...
Commutual asked 23/6, 2014 at 20:17

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This is a very simple dice roll program that keeps rolling two dice until it gets double sixes. So my while statement is structured as: while DieOne != 6 and DieTwo != 6: For some reason, the prog...
Thingumabob asked 12/1, 2019 at 19:31

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I need help with a program in python 3.3 that is supposed to do Russian peasant multiplication/ancient Egyptian multiplication. The assignment says," If "A" and "B" are the two integers to be multi...
Caramelize asked 1/2, 2013 at 1:7

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This script breaks up the cvs list into three columns. we are focusing on the "name" column. I want to discover the name that has the most characters. Once I find the name with the most characters...
Flinn asked 3/11, 2017 at 1:36

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There are a number of different way to accomplish the same simple loop though the items of an object in c#. This has made me wonder if there is any reason be it performance or ease of use, as to ...
Tonguing asked 6/3, 2013 at 12:22

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I want to have a while loop do something like the following, but is this possible in c++? If so, how does the syntax go? do { //some code while( expression to be evaluated ); // some more code...
Sweetmeat asked 27/11, 2009 at 6:33

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I'm trying to generate a list of string dates in months (i.e. ["Oct 2014", "Nov 2014",... "Jan 2015" ]) using the code here: var resultList = []; var date = new Date("October 13, 2014"); var en...
Tensile asked 14/1, 2015 at 3:12

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I have read the relevant pages on w3schools and other similar questions here but cannot seem to understand what's wrong about the following bit : var myfunc03 = function (i) { document.getE...
Cristie asked 9/6, 2016 at 14:2

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Why can't while loop be used on a range function in python ? The code: def main(): x=1; while x in range(1,11): print (str(x)+" cm"); if __name__=="__main__": main(); executes as an infi...
Transom asked 5/4, 2018 at 17:13

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I have written this: while file.readline().startswith("#"): continue But I suspect the continue is unnecessary? What is the correct syntax for what i'm trying to achieve?
Unbiased asked 10/2, 2013 at 11:6

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In Python you have two fine ways to repeat some action more than once. One of them is while loop and the other - for loop. So let's have a look on two simple pieces of code: for i in range(n...
Kugler asked 15/7, 2013 at 6:22

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I apologize if this a stupid question, but I cannot find the answer anywhere. How does the following code work? (I realize that it loops over the elements of els) var i = els.length; while (i --&...
Rhyolite asked 24/12, 2013 at 3:48

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I have this code and I want to catch the letter exception but it keeps having these errors: Exception in thread "main" java.util.InputMismatchException at java.util.Scanner.throwFor(Scanner.java:...
Depth asked 29/5, 2013 at 14:12

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I'd like to write a java while loop that will iterate for 15 seconds. One way I thought to do this would be to store the current system time + 15sec and then compare that to the current time in the...
Somatoplasm asked 8/1, 2010 at 16:46

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