Imagine a situation where you have to print something a hundred times. How would you do that?
You could type the command a hundred times, or maybe copy-paste it repeatedly – but you probably wouldn’t want to.
This is where loops come into use. When using a for-loop, those hundred lines of code can be written in as few as three to four statements.
A for-loop allows a particular set of statements, written inside the loop, to be executed repeatedly until a specified condition is satisfied.
This code will print out the first ten natural numbers using a for-loop in Java.
class Sample{ public static void main(String args[]) { int start = 1; // starting condition int end = 10; // ending condition for (int index = start; index <= end; index++) { System.out.println("Value of index: "+ index); } } }
The loop will run ten times, printing the first ten natural numbers, until the terminating condition is met, i.e.,​ when the index is equal to ten.
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