exiting a loop

Hello all,

I have a while loop in which

while abs(a-b)>=delta
  rest of  code

    end

Sometimes the condition of this while loop is not satisfied and my program gets stuck in the loop; is there any way that I can specify the number of iterations such that after this specified value, my program exits the loop?

Many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

[Andrei Bobrov]

k = 0;
while abs(a-b)>=delta | k < 1e3
    ....
    k = k + 1;
end

[Bahareh]

Thanks but instead of | I put &&, then it worked.