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Why we need nested loop and what is its purpose
Posted 23 Nov '12 - 22:42
ALIWAZ392


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You use a nested loop for a lot of reasons: Think about it in real life.
When you read a book, you are using a loop:
foreach page in book
   {
   read page
   }
But reading a page involves a loop as well:
foreach line in page
   {
   read line
   }
And to read a line, you need to read each word. and for each word, you need to read each character.
 
Computing is the same: you want to do a task, which needs you to loop through items. Each item needs further processing which requires you to loop though smaller portions.
 
for (i = 0; i < linesCount; i++)
   {
   char* line = lines[i];
   for (j = 0; j < line.Length; j++)
      {
      // Do somethign with each character of the line
      }
   }
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Comments
Nelek - 24 Nov '12 - 5:40
The power of simplicity. +5
Mohibur Rashid - 24 Nov '12 - 9:16
brilliant answer, +5
Albert Holguin - 25 Nov '12 - 1:06
Excellent answer Griff +5
Mohd Imran Saifi - 25 Nov '12 - 2:09
Nice Example
As an example, you might find nested loops useful for creating a table:
  int table[10][10];
  for (i=1; i<=10; i++)
   for (j=1; j<=10; j++)
     table[i][j] = i*j;
The above C code creates the classical school multiplication table.
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There is the lots of thing where we need to use nested loop... try the different sorting algorithm in c, c++ in which u must have to use nested loop.
In matrix multiplication also u have to use nested loop.
in short.. you can implement nested loop as per your need.
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