The way I've always decided is that for loops are for "known" lengths and while loops are for "unknown" lengths.
To break this down further - if you have an array and need to loop over each element of the array, you can use for (item of array). We know it's going to be a for loop because we want to hit each element 1 time over the course of our loop.
If we wanted to add items to an array until the length of the array was 100 or more items, we could use while (array.length < 100) - the big thing here is that we don't know how long our array will be when it starts.
The way I've always decided is that
forloops are for "known" lengths andwhileloops are for "unknown" lengths.To break this down further - if you have an array and need to loop over each element of the array, you can use
for (item of array). We know it's going to be a for loop because we want to hit each element 1 time over the course of our loop.If we wanted to add items to an array until the length of the array was 100 or more items, we could use
while (array.length < 100)- the big thing here is that we don't know how long our array will be when it starts.Does that clarify things?
It does, thanks so much!