Description

Executes a block of statements for as long as a specified condition is true.

Syntax

for ( initialization; test ; increment )
    statement

The for statement syntax has these parts:

Part	Description
initialization	An expression. This expression is only executed once, before the loop is executed.
test	A Boolean expression. If test is true, statement is executed. If test if false, the loop is terminated.
increment	An expression. The increment expression is executed at the end of every pass through the loop.
statement	The statement to be executed if test is true. Can be a compound statement.

Remarks

You usually use for loops when a loop is to be executed a specific number of times. For example:

for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) // i is set to 0 at start, and incremented 
{                        // by 1 at end of each iteration. Loop terminates
  j *= i;                // when i is not less than 10 before a loop iteration.
}

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