Loops are a type of control flow structure, in which, a series of statements may be executed repeatedly until some condition is met.

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tap with break and redo [on hold]

Last weeks I sometimes use tap in ways like this and since I never saw anyone else doing this I feel myself guilty. ...
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Methods to check form validity and to count invalid form fields

I have two these methods. Their loops are pretty similar. I'd like to refactor it to avoid duplicate nested loops. How could I do that? ...
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A general iterator to replace “non-standard” C-style for loops

Since the deprecation of C-style for loops in Swift 2.2 (and the removal in Swift 3), several questions about the possible replacements were asked on Stack Overflow. In most cases, a ...
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Product of 2 numbers equals sum of numbers between them

Problem: Find all the pairs (a, b) whose product is equal to the sum of all numbers in the sequence [1..n] excluding both a and b. I have made code for one program and need refactoring for code to ...
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Shortest route between nodes c# [closed]

Trying to find the shortest route between two different cities. I've included what I have done below. I am not sure how to fix it and make it work properly. ...
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Nested loop to transform MongoDB results

I have the following structure returned from MongoDB: ...
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OnStartApplicationsCommand function

The foreach loop seems ridiculously lengthy and I am trying to get rid of it altogether is possible. But there are a lot of things happening in there which I need ...
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Learning nested for loops in Python with Pig Latin translator

I've been trying to learn Python for a bit now. I've taken a few courses, but I've found that I've been going about them wrong and had allowed them to "hold my hand" too much. I'm trying to build ...
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Calculating all possible Knight turns (Chess)

I'm creating a console application that takes as input starting column and starting row, also the ending column and the ending row and it's going to output all the possible way's to get to that point ...
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CasperJS continue equivalent inside for loop with casper.then

CasperJS doesn't allow continue statement inside a casper.then functions. This was my solution but I'm not happy about it. Is ...
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Four-function calculator with a text menu

This code works but I don't know if I am doing this correctly. I want to have a do-while loop for the menu and app. How could I ...
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Nested loops - Random Forest, multiple parameters

I'm writing a code which task is to grow Random Forest trees based on multiple parameters. In short: Firstly, I declare a data frame in which model parameters and some stats will be saved. Secondly, ...
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“Guess my Number” game in Python (2.7.9)

First time posting to Code Review. Just looking to get some advice on how I can write better code. I found the following exercise for a "Guess my Number" game on DaniWeb, but the linked source code ...
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Basic game engine: timer, FPS and logic loop

I'm creating a simple Java game engine (just for fun). The idea is to create a basic framework for developing any kind of 2D game, an abstract engine that does the hard work. Would you like to review ...
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Partitioning an array of objects into four arrays by one attribute

I have an array of API objects, below is an example of one object: ...
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PHP alternative syntax confusion

Newbie to PHP. Trying to output the results of an array inside a foreach loop. I have got the following code but I cannot understand what to do with it next. Mainly; Where/how do I start and end ...
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Using Enum to Handle String literals

I have a java component that was using a lot of string literals that I need to make comparisons on and return booleans based on these comparisons. In order to make the code more robust I externalized ...
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Extracting sleep quality scores from periodic readings

How can I optimize the next function to work faster? The function must prepare a list to put in a CSV file. The list must contain values of average percentage of sleep per minute counted from ...
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Simple load testing script in bash

Here's the code ...
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Reading denormalized data using a stateful loop body

I'm reading denormalized data with a SqlDataReader, the data has this form: ...
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Transforming a list into a dictionary

I have a simple list and want to filter it by a specific key. But I guess my for loop solution is not an efficient way. I'm searching an other way or one best practice. ...
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Tail-recursive call vs looping for a Poker app

I'm developing a Poker app. It is almost done, and I'm looking for improvement. One of the things I wonder is whether I should change how I perform iterations. I currently iterate by using ...
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Better way to loop through current and next element [closed]

Let's assume I want to iterate over a list and want to check the current item against the next item. The way I do it for now is like this: ...
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Return Object[] while connecting to DB once

I have written this code according to my requirements. But after finishing the code, it looks like there are too many loops. I have reduced it as much as I can. Can you find any improvements that I ...
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Python sprinting game using strings, loops and statements

Here is my code for a sprinting game in Python. You have to tap the 'a' and 'd' keys as fast as you can to run 100 meters. Any improvements? ...
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'Retry' mechanism with callback

We've had a situation whereby we have to cater for certain exceptions and retry a particular method whenever these exceptions occur. This is required in various parts of the system. In addition, we ...
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Display calendar using a loop

Desired output: Can I get an shorter version of this code? My instructor just wants me to figure it out my self. ...
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Creating cover traffic by calling random urls - Javascript loop to decrement float

This is a for-loop which runs once for each step with i>1 and maybe for ...
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Computing the distance and weight matrix of a graph

I would like to create an igraph object. First, I set up the size of igraph object — n, m, then create a random matrix. As a result matrix ...
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Convert A for loop in R to apply function

My goal is to iterate over a datamatrix, calculate mean, standard error of the mean, and then have a bar plot representing the 2 groups of my data matrix in R. My code below works as a for loop. ...
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Generating calendar months for a datepicker

I got a problem I'm finding pretty hard to solve. I'm trying to generate calendar months for a datepicker but at only 12 months I see a perf of around ~4-7ms. This doesn't sound like a problem but it ...
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Getting employee details according to the role

Here is my issue.I have two classes: ...
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Swift replacement for C's for-loop

I recently wrote an entry on my blog regarding unit testing using prime numbers as an example. When I wrote the entry, I wrote my code keeping in minding that proposal SE-0007 has been accepted for ...
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Creating a list of new areas for patches of conserved land within a watershed

I'm writing code to create a list of new areas for patches of conserved land within a watershed based on the current size distribution of conserved land patches that are in the watershed now. I'm ...
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Path finding algorithm using recursion in Python

Here is a code I developed some time ago. I wonder if there is anything I can do to improve it. It works for non-loopy mazes which was already my goal. In the maze defined, ...
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Loops to merge documents and renumber pages

I have a for loop implementation for merging documents and page re-numbering. But since I am modifying the collection while iterating, I suspect that the code might ...
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Python 3 - better iterate over list or over range of indexes? [closed]

Using Python 3 (3.5 to be exact), I want to iterate over a two-dimensional list. I have the choice to either iterate over the list content directly, or to iterate over the list indexes (...
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Picking the top 5 results for each individual

For loops are the devil. I can't see a way to speed this up with apply or other more speedy functions though... ...
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ExcelVBA loop exports data from spreadsheet to table within Excel

I want to nest a for loop to cycle through the Range.Value but ("B4") throws me off and this can't be avoided. I was considering using an array to do this but ...
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Many CRUD operations for a list of technicians' shifts

The following code snippet is causing me a performance problem in my application. The first 5 db queries are not high time consuming, the real problem lays on the foreach loop. I considered to use ...
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Balancing the server load

I've created a program that will take, a bunch of numbers from a range of 1 - 255, and then put them into 3 different strings(servers) equally. It does this by ...
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Concatenate data files into master document

Here is code I wrote to concatenate data files into master file. Once the data to be pasted into the master sheet exceeds the number of rows left in the master sheet, the program will create a new ...
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Checking if an element exists in an array efficiently and return it

I am writing a function for my node/angular app that will prompt the user with a random question that he was not asked before. To achieve this I wrote this function: ...
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Searching the same values in an array

If I am not mistaken, this method has a complexity \$O(N^2)\$: ...
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Determining whether a loop iterated at least one element in generator function

I have a case in which I need to determine whether a for loop yielded at least one element: ...