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Ethereum Smart Contract Development
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Ethereum Smart Contract Development

by Mayukh Mukhopadhyay
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Coding a loop

Loops are very helpful when we need to repeat the execution of a piece of code a certain number of times. Rather than copying and pasting the same lines of code, making the code block longer, we use this programming construct to add brevity to our code. Loops can be finite or infinite in nature. For the infinite loop, we generally provide a break statement to come out of it.

The smart contract in Figure 3.16 is using a finite loop to calculate the summation of a finite number of integers:

Figure 3.16: Loop inside a Solidity smart contract

The output on remix IDE is shown in Figure 3.17. As discussed earlier, keep a watch on the ...

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