How to get While to Return a Custom Value?

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The Documentation for While says:

Unless an explicit Return is used, the value returned by While is Null.

But how do I implement it? I'd like to build a function  f[..., k_:0]:= While[test(k), k++; ...] that tests a condition against increasing values of k starting from zero and eventually returns the value that makes test(k) return False (or True).

Jean-Pierre · Accepted Answer

Here is an example. The condition is that k be at least equal to a+b. Since we cannot increment k we set the variable t to the value of k. The While increments t until it is equal or greater than a+b. At this point, just using t by itself will return the value of t.
Clear[f];
f[a_, b_, k_ : 0] := 
  Block[ {t},
   t = k;
    While[t < a + b, t++];
    t
   ]

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