#iterative programming

SAS : Post 39 : DO Loop Processing: Iterative Programming

DO loop processing

For people with programming background, DO loop is just like a FOR loop (you can easily correlate now).

For people with no programming background, a DO loop is used when you want to perform some task multiple times. Instead of writing the same code again and again, you use a DO loop and this helps you to run that part of the code multiple number of times. You can control the…

Excel VBA : Post 5 : Iterative Processing (FOR-NEXT loop)

There will be times when you need to run same operation multiple times while you are writing an Excel VBA code. This is exactly the time you need to use loops to work around your task at hand.

Our first iterative loop is FOR-NEXT loop. We will talk about DO loop in a different post. Following is syntax for FOR-NEXT loop

    for  <counter variable> = <startval>  to  <endval>  (<increment val>)