Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition

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Adding a semicolon after

the closing parenthesis in

the for loop header indi-

cates an empty loop body

and will likely cause a logic

error.

COMMON ERROR

TRAP

6.10 Count-Controlled Loops Using for 331

6.10 Count-Controlled Loops Using for

Before the loop begins, if you know the number of times the loop body

should execute, you can use a count-controlled loop. The for loop is designed

for count-controlled loops, that is, when the number of iterations is deter-

mined before the loop begins.

6.10.1 Basic Structure of for Loops

The for loop has this syntax:

for ( initialization; loop condition; loop update )

{

// loop body

}

Notice that the initialization, loop condition, ...