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<span id="Looping-Over-Structure-Elements-1"></span><h4 class="subsection">10.5.1 Looping Over Structure Elements</h4>
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<p>A special form of the <code>for</code> statement allows you to loop over all
the elements of a structure:
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<pre class="example">for [ <var>val</var>, <var>key</var> ] = <var>expression</var>
  <var>body</var>
endfor
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<p>In this form of the <code>for</code> statement, the value of <var>expression</var>
must be a structure.  If it is, <var>key</var> and <var>val</var> are set to the
name of the element and the corresponding value in turn, until there are
no more elements.  For example:
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<pre class="example">x.a = 1
x.b = [1, 2; 3, 4]
x.c = &quot;string&quot;
for [val, key] = x
  key
  val
endfor

     -| key = a
     -| val = 1
     -| key = b
     -| val =
     -|
     -|   1  2
     -|   3  4
     -|
     -| key = c
     -| val = string
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<p>The elements are not accessed in any particular order.  If you need to
cycle through the list in a particular way, you will have to use the
function <code>fieldnames</code> and sort the list yourself.
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