Code Complete, 2nd Edition

Chapter 16. Controlling Loops

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Contents

• Selecting the Kind of Loop

• Controlling the Loop

• Creating Loops Easily—From the Inside Out

• Correspondence Between Loops and Arrays

Related Topics

• Taming deep nesting: Taming Dangerously Deep Nesting

• General control issues: Chapter 19

• Code with conditionals: Chapter 15

• Straight-line code: Chapter 14

• Relationship between control structures and data types: Relationship Between Data Types and Control Structures

"Loop" is an informal term that refers to any kind of iterative control structure—any structure that causes a program to repeatedly execute a block of code. Common loop types are for, while, and do-while in C++ and Java, and For-Next, While-Wend, and Do-Loop-While in Microsoft Visual Basic. Using loops ...