.NET for Java Developers: Migrating to C#

9.2. The while Loop

The while statement executes a statement or a block of statements until a specified expression evaluates to false. It takes this form:

while (expression) statement

where

• expression is an expression that can be implicitly converted to bool or a type that contains overloading of the true and false operators. The expression is used to test the loop-termination criteria.

• statement is the embedded statement(s) to be executed.

Because the test of expression takes place before each execution of the loop, a while loop executes zero or more times. A while loop can be terminated when a break, goto, return, or throw statement transfers control outside the loop. To pass control to the next iteration without exiting the loop, you use the ...