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Looping Statements
To check if a variable matches multiple values, you can stack multiple case
statements, such as
switch (expression) {
case value1:
case value2:
Command;
break;
case value3:
case value4;
Command;
break;
default:
Command;
}
The preceding SWITCH statement is equivalent to the following IF-ELSE
statement:
if (expression == value1) || (expression == value2) {
Command;
}
else if (expression == value3) || (expression == value4) {
Command;
}
else {
Command;
}
Looping Statements
A looping statement repeats one or more commands for a fixed number of
times or until a certain Boolean condition becomes True. To create a loop
that repeats for a fixed number of times, use the FOR loop, which looks like
this:
for (startvalue; endvalue; increment) {
Command;
}
If you wanted the FOR loop to run four times, you could set the Start value to
1 and the End value to 4, such as
for ($i = 1; $i