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The for statement

The C for statement has the following form:

expression initialises; expression is the terminate test; expression is the modifier (which may be more than just simple increment);

NOTE: C basically treats for statements as while type loops

For example:

...outputs:

...to the screen

All the following are legal for statements in C. The practical application of such statements is not important here, we are just trying to illustrate peculiar features of C for that may be useful:-

The second example shows that multiple expressions can be separated a ,.

In the third example the loop will continue to iterate until z becomes 0;


Dave.Marshall@cm.cf.ac.uk
Wed Sep 14 10:06:31 BST 1994