Editing While loop (section)

{{Short description|Control flow statement for repeating execution until a condition is met}}
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In most computer [[programming language]]s, a '''while loop''' is a [[control flow]] [[Statement (computer science)|statement]] that allows code to be executed repeatedly based on a given [[Boolean data type|Boolean]] condition. The ''while'' loop can be thought of as a repeating [[Conditional (computer programming)|if statement]].