The For Statement

Provides a convenient way to repeat another statement for a certain number of times.

General Form

for (initializationStatementexpressionnextIterationStatement)
	statement

The for statement behaves exactly like the following:

initializationStatement
while (expression)
{
	statement
	nextIterationStatement
}

Note: As with the while statement, the nested statement will not be performed at all if the expression is false the first time it's tested.

The initialization statement and the next-iteration statement must both be simple statements. The initialization statement can be a variable declaration statement. This makes it easy to create a local index variable that's used only in the context of the for statement. (When the entire for statement exits, that variable is discarded.)

Example

// Display the numbers from 1 to 10.
for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++)
	Print(i);