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While loop in Java programming with example

In this article, we will discuss the While loop in Java programming language.

In this post, we are going to learn how to use while loop in Java programming language

Loops in Java

loops are used to execute a block of code as long as a specified condition is satisfied.

Java program has three types of basic loops

for loop
while loop
Do-while loop

While loop

while is used to execute a statement(s) repeatedly until the particular condition is satisfied, in the tutorial, we will learn how to work while loop with examples

First, we will know while loop syntax.

Syntax of while loop

while(condition(s))

{

Body of loop
//statement(s);

}

In while loop, the test condition is evaluated first and if it returns true then executes inside the body of the statement. if condition returns false, The flow of control goes out of loop body.

While loop flow diagram

The loop begins with initialization part it is executed only once
Then check the test expression, boolean expression may return true/false .When boolean expression is true, codes inside the body of while loop is executed.
Then control goes to increment part or decrement part and update statement is updtaed
Test expression of while loop is evaluated on each iteration until the boolean expression returns false
When the test expression is returned to false, while loop is terminated.

While loop example

Example 1

class Whiledemo{
public static void main(String args[]){
int x;
x=1;
while(x<=10)
{
System.out.println("x is " + x);
x++;
}
 
}
}

When the above code is executed, it produces the following result

Example 2

import java.util.Scanner;
class Sum_Of_Num{
public static void main(String args[]){
  int sum=0;
Scanner scan=new Scanner(System.in); //create a scanner object for input
System.out.print("Enter the number as you wish: ");
int num=scan.nextInt();//get input from the user for num
int i=1;
while(i<=num){
  sum+=i;  //sum=sum+i;
  i++;
}
System.out.println("Sum of 1 to "+num+" is: "+sum);

}


}

When the above code is executed, it produces the following result

Enter the number as you wish:100
sum of 1 to 100 is:5050

Example 3

import java.util.Scanner;
class While_Display{
public static void main(String args[]){
  int sum=0;
Scanner scan=new Scanner(System.in); //create a scanner object for input
System.out.print("Enter the number as you wish: ");
int num=scan.nextInt();//get input from the user for num
int i=1;
while(i<=num){
System.out.println("This while loop displays "+i+" times");
i++;
}

}


}

When the above code is executed, it produces the following result

Enter the number as you wish: 12
This while loop displays 1 time
This while loop displays 2 time
This while loop displays 3 time
This while loop displays 4 time
This while loop displays 5 time
This while loop displays 6 time
This while loop displays 7 time
This while loop displays 8 time
This while loop displays 9 time
This while loop displays 10 time
This while loop displays 11 time
This while loop displays 12 time