Nested Loops

A nested loop is one loop inside another loop. A common use for nested loops is to display data in rows and columns. One loop can handle, say, all the columns in a row, and the second loop handles the rows. Listing 6.17 shows a simple example.

Listing 6.17. The rows1.c Program
/* rows1.c -- uses nested loops */
#include <stdio.h>
#define ROWS  6
#define CHARS 10
int main(void)
{
    int row;
    char ch;

    for (row = 0; row < ROWS; row++)              /* line 10 */
    {
        for (ch = 'A'; ch < ('A' + CHARS); ch++)  /* line 12 */
            printf("%c", ch);
        printf("\n");
    }
    return 0;
}

Running the program produces these output:

ABCDEFGHIJ
ABCDEFGHIJ
ABCDEFGHIJ
ABCDEFGHIJ
ABCDEFGHIJ
ABCDEFGHIJ

Program Discussion

The for loop beginning on line 10 is called an outer loop, ...

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