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The document explains the Fortran 'do loop' construct, which allows for iterative execution of statements while a condition is true. It provides the syntax for the loop, examples of printing numbers and calculating factorials, and describes the flow of control within the loop. The document includes code snippets and their expected output when executed.

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Fortran Do Loop Construct Tutorialspoint

The document explains the Fortran 'do loop' construct, which allows for iterative execution of statements while a condition is true. It provides the syntax for the loop, examples of printing numbers and calculating factorials, and describes the flow of control within the loop. The document includes code snippets and their expected output when executed.

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Fortran - Do Loop Construct

The do loop construct enables a statement, or a series of statements, to be carried out iteratively,
while a given condition is true.

Syntax
The general form of the do loop is −

do var = start, stop [,step]


! statement(s)
…
end do

Where,
the loop variable var should be an integer
start is initial value
stop is the final value
step is the increment, if this is omitted, then the variable var is increased by unity

For example

! compute factorials
do n = 1, 10
nfact = nfact * n
! printing the value of n and its factorial
print*, n, " ", nfact
end do

Flow Diagram

Here is the flow of control for the do loop construct −


The initial step is executed first, and only once. This step allows you to declare and
initialize any loop control variables. In our case, the variable var is initialised with the value
start.
Next, the condition is evaluated. If it is true, the body of the loop is executed. If it is false,
the body of the loop does not execute and flow of control jumps to the next statement just

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after the loop. In our case, the condition is that the variable var reaches its final value stop.
After the body of the loop executes, the flow of control jumps back up to the increment
statement. This statement allows you to update the loop control variable var.
The condition is now evaluated again. If it is true, the loop executes and the process
repeats itself (body of loop, then increment step, and then again condition). After the
condition becomes false, the loop terminates.

Example 1

This example prints the numbers 11 to 20 −

Live Demo
program printNum
implicit none

! define variables
integer :: n

do n = 11, 20
! printing the value of n
print*, n
end do

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end program printNum

When the above code is compiled and executed, it produces the following result −

11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20

Example 2
This program calculates the factorials of numbers 1 to 10 −

Live Demo
program factorial
implicit none

! define variables
integer :: nfact = 1
integer :: n

! compute factorials
do n = 1, 10
nfact = nfact * n
! print values
print*, n, " ", nfact
end do

end program factorial

When the above code is compiled and executed, it produces the following result −

1 1
2 2
3 6
4 24
5 120
6 720
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7 5040
8 40320
9 362880
10 3628800

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