Thread: while loop and numbers

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    while loop and numbers

    I was wanting to output numbers in the format below

    i-> 0 j-> -0
    i-> 0 j-> -1
    i-> 0 j-> -2

    i-> 1 j-> -0
    i-> 1 j-> -1
    i-> 1 j-> -2

    i-> 2 j-> -0
    i-> 2 j-> -1
    i-> 2 j-> -2

    So i wrote this while loop :

    Code:
    # include <stdio.h>
    
    int main(void){
    int i=0; int j=0;
    
    while(i<3){
           while(j<3){
               printf("\n i->%d j->%d",i,j);
               j++;
           }       
           i++;
       }     
    }
    but it outputs
    i-> 0 j-> -0
    i-> 0 j-> -1
    i-> 0 j-> -2

    only.
    Wonder if someone could tell me where I am going wrong.thanks alot.

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    Because you aren't resetting the value of j, so it never goes back into that loop.

    Code:
    # include <stdio.h>
    
    int main(void){
    int i=0, j;
    
    while(i<3){
        j = 0;
           while(j<3){
               printf("\n i->%d j->%d",i,j);
               j++;
           }       
           i++;
       }     
    }
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    Because you forgot to reset j to zero after the first inner loop.

    Edit: too slow.

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    thanx for the replies.you ppl were fast

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    i might be too later but the program doesn't print what you wanted, rather...
    Code:
    i-> 0 j-> 0
    i-> 0 j-> 1
    i-> 0 j-> 2
    i-> 1 j-> 0
    i-> 1 j-> 1
    i-> 1 j-> 2
    i-> 2 j-> 0
    i-> 2 j-> 1
    i-> 2 j-> 2

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    Well, I think that was just typos with his example output, otherwise, I'd just have to say that negetive zero isn't a number. If you did want negetive numbers, though. Just do i-- and compare i to being greater than -3 in your conditional.
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