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

by Julie Anderson, Herve J. Franceschi
February 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1288 pages
39h 39m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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344 CHAPTER 6 Flow of Control,Part 2: Looping
Figure 6.27
The Backwards Class with
an Empty Sentence
the for loop with an empty sentence. In other words, when the prompt
appears to enter a sentence, we simply press the OK button. If you try this,
you will find that the application still works, as Figure 6.27 shows.
The program works correctly with an empty sentence because the for loop
initialization statement is
int i = original.length( ) – 1;
Because the length of an empty String is 0, this statement sets i to 1. The
loop condition (
i >= 0) is false, so the loop body is never executed. The flow
of control skips to the statement following the loop,
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ISBN: 9780763749637