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For Loop

By Upekha Vandebona
For

What it means in plain English: “Repeat 100 times.”


How the compiler sees it:
▪ create a variable i and set it to 0.
▪ repeat while i is less than 100.
▪ at the end of each loop iteration, add 1 to i.
Part One: initialization
 Use this part to declare and initialize a
variable to use within the loop body.
 You’ll most often use this variable as a
counter.
 You can actually initialize more than one
variable here, but it’s much more
common to use a single variable.
Part Two: boolean test
This is where the conditional test goes.
Whatever’s in there, it must resolve to
a boolean value (true or false).
You can have a test, like (x >= 4), or
you can even invoke a method that
returns a boolean.
Part Three: iteration
expression
In this part, put one or more things
you want to happen with each trip
through the loop.
Keep in mind that this stuff happens
at the end of each loop.
for(int i=0; i<8; i++){ Declare int i
Set i to 0
System.out.println(i);
}
System.out.println(“done”
);
true Is i < 8?
Enter loop body (boolea
n test)

Print the value fals


of i e
Print
“done”
Increment i
While Vs For

A while loop has only the


boolean test; it doesn’t
have a built-in initialization
or iteration expression.

Choose for loops over while loops when you


know how many times you want to repeat the
loop code.
Pre and Post
Increment/Decrement
Operator (++ and --)
The Enhanced for loop

What it means in plain English: “For each element in nameArray,


assign the element to the ‘name’ variable, and run the body of the
loop.”
Part 1: Iteration Variable
Declaration
 Use this part to declare and initialize a
variable to use within the loop body.
 With each iteration of the loop, this variable
will hold a different element from the
collection.
 The type of this variable must be compatible
with the elements in the array! For example,
you can’t declare an int iteration variable to
use with a String[] array.
Part Two: the actual collection
This must be a reference to an array
or other collection.
The Enhanced for loop

How the compiler sees it:


• Create a String variable called name and set it to null.
• Assign the first value in nameArray to name.
• Run the body of the loop (the code block bounded by
curly braces).
• Assign the next value in nameArray to name.
• Repeat while there are still elements in the array.
Thank You!

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