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C Loops

Sometimes it is necessary in the program to execute the statement several times, and C loops execute a block of commands a specified number of times, until a condition is met. In this chapter you will learn about all the looping statements of C programming along with their use.

What is Loop?

A computer is the most suitable machine to perform repetitive tasks and can tirelessly do a task tens of thousands of times. Every programming language has the feature to instruct to do such repetitive tasks with the help of certain form of statements. The process of repeatedly executing a collection of statement is called looping. The statements gets executed many number of times based on the condition. But if the condition is given in such a logic that the repetition continues any number of times with no fixed condition to stop looping those statements, then this type of looping is called infinite looping.
C supports following types of loops:
All are slightly different and provides loops for different situations.
Figure – Flowchart of Looping:

C Loop Control Statements

Loop control statements is used to change normal sequence of execution of loop.
StatementSyntaxDescription
break statementbreak;Is used to terminate loop or switch statements.
continue statementcontinue;Is used to suspend the execution of current loop iteration and transfer control to the loop for the next iteration.
goto statementgoto labelName;
labelName: statement;
It’s transfer current program execution sequence to some other part of the program.
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