if within a while?

[Brendan Kehoe]

In article <15471 at brahms.udel.edu> you write:
>I'm trying to nest an IF within a WHILE, but am
>getting some very funky errors because of it.
>Can anyone mail a simple syntax that can be followed?

 Is this in C or in a shell script? [If so, which shell?]

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