Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition

3.8. C# Iteration Constructs

All programming languages provide ways to repeat blocks of code until a terminating condition has been met. Regardless of which language you have used in the past, the C# iteration statements should not raise too many eyebrows and should require little explanation. C# provides the following four iteration constructs:

• for loop

• foreach/in loop

• while loop

• do/while loop

Let's quickly examine each looping construct in turn, using a new Console Application project named IterationsAndDecisions.

3.8.1. The for Loop

When you need to iterate over a block of code a fixed number of times, the for statement provides a good deal of flexibility. In essence, you are able to specify how many times a block of code repeats itself, as ...