Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

Repetition Statements in Java

Java provides three repetition statements (also called iteration statements or looping statements) that enable programs to perform statements repeatedly as long as a condition (called the loop-continuation condition) remains true. The repetition statements are the while, do...while, for and enhanced for statements. (Chapter 5 presents the do...while and for statements and Chapter 7 presents the enhanced for statement.) The while and for statements perform the action (or group of actions) in their bodies zero or more times—if the loop-continuation condition is initially false, the action (or group of actions) will not execute. The do...while statement performs the action (or group of actions) in its body one or more ...