Do . . . While and Trying to Get Your Attention

[Crickett]

What is Do . . . While? I've done BASIC programming, but in ActionScript, it nearly locks up my Flash presentation.

Any help?

[Little Ben]

Do.. While is the same as 'Loop' and 'For'.

It DOES something WHILE something else is true. It differs from For and Loop as it will DO something once before checking whether something is true.

The below examples illustrates the differences.



DO... WHILE

Example:
i = 0;
do {
i = ++i;
trace (i);
} while (i < 5);

Output :
1 2 3 4 5



FOR

Example
for (i = 0; i < 5; ++i) {
trace (i);
}

Output:
0 1 2 3 4


[Edited by Little Ben on 08-06-2001 at 09:47 AM]