How do I loop a program

What I want to do is loop this program so I don't have to keep retyping it but I can't figure out how.

I want to loop this.


turtle.digDown()
turtle.down()
turtle.dig()
turtle.forward()
turtle.dig()

So it will end up making a staircase to bedrock.
Thanks in advanced
EDIT: figured it out so you can delete this.

You could use

while true do
turtle.digDown()
turtle.down()
turtle.dig()
turtle.forward()
turtle.dig()
end

but this will go on for ever so i recommend using it like this

x = 0
while x < 20 do
turtle.digDown()
turtle.down()
turtle.dig()
turtle.forward()
turtle.dig()
end

This will repeat the code for 20 times.

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1v2l3a4m5e6n, on 15 April 2012 - 06:26 PM said:

Spoiler

You could use

while true do
turtle.digDown()
turtle.down()
turtle.dig()
turtle.forward()
turtle.dig()
end

but this will go on for ever so i recommend using it like this

x = 0
while x < 20 do
turtle.digDown()
turtle.down()
turtle.dig()
turtle.forward()
turtle.dig()
end

This will repeat the code for 20 times.

If you want to do it a certain amount of times, don't use that, use a for loop:

local amount = 5 -- Change 5 to how many times you want to loop it
for DoNotChangeThis=1,amount do
turtle.digDown()
turtle.down()
turtle.dig()
turtle.forward()
turtle.dig()
end

Code for doing it forever:

while true do
sleep(0)
turtle.digDown()
turtle.down()
turtle.dig()
turtle.forward()
turtle.dig()
end