JavaSript For Loop

Last Updated Jul 29, 2015, 07:00:14 PM




JavaSript For Loop

The for loop statement creates a loop that consists of three optional expressions, enclosed in parentheses and separated by semicolons, followed by a statement or a set of statements executed in the loop.


Syntax
initialization

An expression (including assignment expressions) or variable declaration. Typically used to initialize a counter variable. This expression may optionally declare new variables with the var keyword.

condition

An expression to be evaluated before each loop iteration. If this expression evaluates to true, the statement is executed. This conditional test is optional. If omitted, the condition always evaluates to true. If the expression evaluates to false, execution skips to the first expression following the for construct.

final-expression

An expression to be evaluated at the end of each loop iteration. It occurs before the next evaluation of the condition. The final expression is used to update or increment the counter variable.

statement

A statement that is executed as long as the condition evaluates to true. To execute multiple statements within the loop, use a block statement ({ ... }) to group those statements. To execute no statement within the loop, use an empty statement (;).


Example

In the above example, the variable n initialized with 0, it checks if the variable n is less than 9, then it will print that variable while the value of n keeps increasing until the condition becomes false


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Browser compatibility
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Last Updated Jul 29, 2015, 07:00:14 PM