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Java Loops: for, while, do…while

The next step after working with conditional statements is to handle loops. Like JavaScript, Java supports a for loop, a while loop, and a do…while loop.

Here's how you use a Java for loop in general; note that the statement that makes up the body of the for loop can be a compound statement—it can be made up of several single statements enclosed in curly braces:

for (initialization_expression; test_condition; iteration_expression) {
    statement
}

You place an expression in the initialization part of the for loop (which often initializes a variable—that is, a loop index—to 0), and then you place a test condition in the test part of the loop to be tested each time the code in the loop has been executed. If the test ...