There are four types of loop statements in C, for loops, while loops, do-while loops and goto statements. The first two are much more popular; In my Windows asteroids game, I used 54 for-loops, six while-loops, three do-while loops and no gotos.

I found the same thing in Delphi and Turbo Pascal. The only difference is that Pascal uses repeat .. until instead of do-while and I prefer repeat-until.  The logic is slightly clearer I feel as well. You repeat the body of the loop until a condition becomes true. In the C do-while statement, you repeat the body of the loop as long as the condition is true.

Anyway I’ve published tutorial eleven on C loop statements. Have fun. I’ll get it added to the tutorials page shortly..

Here’s a contrived example where I have used a goto.

#include <stdio.h> 

int array[10][10][10];
int main() {
    // Populate array
    for (int y=0;y<10;y++)
      for (int x=0;x<10;x++) 
        for (int z=0;z<10;z++) {
          if (array[x][y][z]==0)
            goto exit;
    }
exit:;
}

In my C programs, for-loops are the most popular followed by while-loops, do-while loops and gotos are hardly ever used at all.