while (AutoLISP)

2013-04-10

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Intermediate

Evaluates a test expression, and if it is not nil, evaluates other expressions; repeats this process until the test expression evaluates to nil

(while testexpr [expr ...])

The while function continues until testexpr is nil.

Arguments

testexpr: The expression containing the test condition.
expr: One or more expressions to be evaluated until testexpr is nil.

Return Values

The most recent value of the last expr.

Examples

The following code calls user function some-func ten times, with test set to 1 through 10. It then returns 11, which is the value of the last expression evaluated:

(setq test 1)
(while (<= test 10)
  (some-func test)
  (setq test (1+ test))
)

while (AutoLISP)

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