Euphoria - Loop Types

Looping is yet another most important aspect of any programming language. While writing your program, you may encounter a situation when you have to execute same statement many times and sometime may be infinite number of times.

There are several ways to specify for how long the process should go on, and how to stop or otherwise alter it. An iterative block may be informally called a loop, and each execution of code in a loop is called an iteration of the loop.

The following diagram shows a simple logical flow of a loop −

Euphoria provides following three types of loop statements −

• while statement

• loop until statement

• for statement

All the above statements provide you flexibility and ease of use based on different situations. Let us see them in detail one by one −