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	Programming in Lua
	Part I. The Language Chapter 4. Statements

4.3.3 – repeat

As the name implies, a repeat-until statement repeats its body until its condition is true. The test is done after the body, so the body is always executed at least once.

    -- print the first non-empty line
    repeat
      line = io.read()
    until line ~= ""
    print(line)

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