Can you imagine iterating through a list of files or a dynamic array and monotonously evaluating each and every one? Or waiting until a condition was true? For these types of scenarios, you may want to use a for loop, a do while loop, or an until loop to improve your script and make things easy. For loops, do while loops, and until loops may seem similar, but there are subtle differences between them.
Basic loops
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