The REPEAT statement is a looping statement and executes one or more statements until a specified condition is true. Syntax: REPEAT {statement};... UNTIL expression The 'statement' is any VSI Pascal statement. The 'expression' is any Boolean expression. VSI Pascal always executes a REPEAT statement for one iteration; iterations continue as long as the Boolean expression is FALSE. When specifying more than one statement as the loop body to a REPEAT statement, do not enclose the statements with the BEGIN and END reserved words; multiple statements are legal in the REPEAT loop body.
1 – Examples
REPEAT READ (x); IF (x IN ['0'..'9']) THEN BEGIN Digit_count := Digit_count + 1; Digit_sum := Digit_sum + ORD (x) - ORD ('0'); END ELSE Char_count := Char_count + 1; UNTIL EOLN (INPUT); Assume that the variable 'x' is of type CHAR and the variables 'Digit_count', 'Digit_sum', and 'Char_count' denote integers. The example reads a character (x). If the value of 'x' is a digit, the count of digits is incremented by one and the sum of digits is increased by the value of 'x', as computed by the ORD function. If the value of 'x' is not a digit, the variable 'Char_count' is incremented by one. The REPEAT loop continues processing characters until it reaches an end-of-line condition.