Research and provide an example of both a counter-controlled loop and a sentinel controlled loop. Provide detail on how each loop works and what the differences are between the two and an example of how each might be used.
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Difference between Sentinel and Counter Controlled Loop in C
Sentinel Controlled Loop
A sentinel controlled loop is also called an indefinite repetition loop because the number of iterations is not known before the loop starts executing. In a sentinel controlled loop, a special value called sentinel value is used to change the loop control expression from true to false in order to determine whether to execute the loop body. Sentinel controlled loop is useful when we don’t know in advance how many times the loop will be executed. An example of a sentinel controlled loop is the processing of data from a text file of unknown size.
Counter Controlled Loop
A counter controlled loop is also known as definite repetition loop, since the number of iterations is known before the loop begins to execute. The counter-controlled loop has the following components:
a control variable.
the increment (or decrement)value by which the control variable is modified at each iteration of the loop.
the loop terminating condition that checks if looping should continue.
Since the counter controlled loop is controlled by a counter value, at each iteration counter value will increase or decrease with a definite value and condition will be checked, so the number of loop execution becomes definite. Any task involving definite iteration can be solved using a counter controlled loop for example printing the first 10 natural numbers
