Oracle Database 10g Express Edition PHP Web Programming

Iterative Control Structures

Iterative control structures, including do-while, for, foreach, and while loops, provide the programmer with a key tool by enabling a program to repeat a set of instructions a specified number of times or until a condition is met.

There are different structures because you can have different purposes when you want to step through data repeatedly. Sometimes you want to do it until a condition is met, as is accomplished with the for and do-while loops. On occasion you want to gate entry to an iterative structure with a condition, which is what the while loop does. In the case of a hash table or hash map, which manages a key-to-value index, PHP provides a special iterative structure—the foreach loop.

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