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

5.3 for Repetition Statement

Section 5.2 presented the essentials of counter-controlled repetition. The while statement can be used to implement any counter-controlled loop. Java also provides the for repetition statement, which specifies the counter-controlled-repetition details in a single line of code. Figure 5.2 reimplements the application of Fig. 5.1 using for.

Click here to view code image

 1   // Fig. 5.2: ForCounter.java 2   // Counter-controlled repetition with the for repetition statement. 3  4   public class ForCounter 5   { 6      public static void main(String[] args) 7      { 8         // for statement header includes initialization,  9         // loop-continuation condition and increment     10         for (int counter = 1