[jparkerson]

What situation would it be more appropriate to use a do...while statement than a while statement?

[mostyfriedman]

when you want the loop to execute at least once regardless of the loop's condition

[jparkerson]

yes but what kind of situation would call for that?

[mostyfriedman]

for example if you want to keep taking input from the user until he inputs a negative number..here you want to execute the loop at least once

do{
int n = scanner.nextInt();

}while(n >= 0);

will break the loop once the user inputs a negative number..or for more sense maybe you would want to execute a block of statements in a loop until the users inputs N when the program asks him if he wants to continue or not

This post has been edited by mostyfriedman: 21 September 2009 - 06:50 PM