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

General Format of a for Statement

The general format of the for statement is

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for (initialization; loopContinuationCondition; increment)   statement

where the initialization expression names the loop’s control variable and optionally provides its initial value, loopContinuationCondition determines whether the loop should continue executing and increment modifies the control variable’s value, so that the loop-continuation condition eventually becomes false. The two semicolons in the for header are required. If the loop-continuation condition is initially false, the program does not execute the for statement’s body. Instead, execution proceeds with the statement following the for.