While Loops

While loops are designed to do something until a certain condition evaluates to false. This means, that a while loop could also run infinitely when the condition never gets fulfilled.
Like the if statement, the condition of the while loop must evaluate to a boolean value, but can hold complex, nested expressions.

Usage¶

Here is an example of a simple while loop:

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int counter = 0;
while counter < 20 {
    printf("Loop run %d", counter);
    counter++;
}

If you wanted to intentionally achieve an endless loop, you would write something like this:

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while true {
    printf("This is gonna run forever ...");
}