2 patterns for a do-while loop in Go

There is no do-while loop in Go. To emulate the C/Java code

do {
	work();
} while (condition);

you may use a for loop in one of these two ways:

for ok := true; ok; ok = condition {
	work()
}

for {
	work()
	if !condition {
		break
	}
}

Repeat-until loop

To write a repeat-until loop

repeat
	work();
until condition;

simply change the condition in the code above to its complement:

for ok := true; ok; ok = !condition {
	work()
}

for {
	work()
	if condition {
		break
	}
}

Further reading

5 patterns for looping in Go

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