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A question on "for" loop

Author:  Johnny19931993 [ Sun Nov 15, 2009 8:16 pm ]
Post subject:  A question on "for" loop

I'm new to java and I've encountered a problem when I was using the for loop
Apparently I can't assign a variable to it as the initial value
like this
Java:

int a = 100;
for (int i = a; i == 101; i++)
{
Statement;
}

For example, if the statement was to output some string, it doesn't do it
can someone help me?
(I am using dr.java)

Author:  Insectoid [ Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:09 pm ]
Post subject:  RE:A question on "for" loop

This for loop will only execute while i == 101. So it will check, does i = 101? No? Okay, skip this part!

Try for (int i = a; i <= 101; i++)

Author:  andrew. [ Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:29 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: A question on "for" loop

Johnny19931993 @ Sun Nov 15, 2009 8:16 pm wrote:

Apparently I can't assign a variable to it as the initial value

That's not the problem, as insectoid said, it is checking the condition in which to continue.


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