while Loops
Demonstrated in Listing 6.1, a while loop causes your program to repeat a sequence of statements as long as the starting condition remains true.
Listing 6.1. while Loops
0: // Listing 6.1
1: // Looping with while
2: #include <iostream>
3:
4: int main()
5: {
6: int counter = 0; // initialize the condition
7:
8: while(counter < 5) // test condition still true
9: {
10: counter++; // body of the loop
11: std::cout << "counter: " << counter << "\n";
12: }
13:
14: std::cout << "Complete. counter: " << counter << ".\n";
15: return 0;
16: }
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counter: 1 counter: 2 counter: 3 counter: 4 counter: 5 Complete. counter: 5
 | This simple program ... |
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