Question

. In your own words briefly explain in what way the while loop is similar to the if statement

Answer 1

The only similarity between a while loop and an if statement is that they both check the satisfaction of a condition before executing the statements inside them. Let's see an example.

int i = 0;

while( i < 5 ){

print( i );

i++;

}

if ( i > -1){

i = i + 1;

}

In the while loop, we are checking whether the value of i is less than 5 or not. If it is, we print i otherwise we break out of the while loop. Similarly, in the if statement we are checking if the value of i is greater than -1 or not. If it is, we increment i by 1 otherwise we ignore the statements inside the if condition.

A while loop is more similar to a for loop in its functioning. Both of them involve initializing the value of a variable, then checking a particular condition and finally updating the value of the variable after every iteration.

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