Just confusing about when do while loop stops............

Question

hi i m just a newbie
i just got a bunch of codes here but what i m confusing is in some function
it is like
boolean error;
do{
//and here it has some code, if and else statements and error changes to true and false
}while(error)this is the code, what i m confusing is when it stops??? it just states while(error)
but i don't know it means it stops when error is false? or when error is true? or
which one???,, because it just says while(error)
but i don't know whether it means error is true or error is false;;;;;;;;

Answer 1

I suggest taking your code and changing the error
variable to flag as follows. Then read it as do
{something} while (flag is true). If flag is true
then you want to loop again; if flag is false you
want to quit the loop. So, initialize flag to be true
as default (you want to loop again). In the code
block set flag to false when you determine you want
to quit.
boolean flag = true;
do{
//and here it has some code, if and else statements
and error changes to true and false
}while(flag)
And I'd suggest that the variable named "flag" is even more non-intuitive than the original "error" variable name was.