Editing Conditional loop (section)

==Examples==
The following is a [[C (programming language)|C-style]] [[While loop]]. It continues looping while '''x''' does not equal '''3''', or in other words it only stops looping when '''x''' equals '''3'''. However, since '''x''' is initialized to '''0''' and the value of '''x''' is never changed in the loop, the loop will never end ([[infinite loop]]).
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int x = 0;

while (x != 3) {
    // code that doesn't change x
}
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The while loop below will execute the code in the loop 5 times. '''x''' is initialized to 0, and each time in the loop the value of '''x''' is incremented. The while loop is set up to stop when '''x''' is equal to 5.
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int x = 0;

while (x != 5) {
    // code
    
    x += 1;
}
</syntaxhighlight>