Thread: decrementing for loop help needed

hiya

Got a problem with a for loop
for example
Say I want it to start at 10, test for at less than 5 and decrement each time before printing, this has been driving me mad.

this is what i thought it would be

for(x=10; x<5; x--)

printf("%d", x); etc

when i do this for x is greater than 5 it works fine i.e x>5 and prints 109876 but for x<5 prints nothing any ideas.

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start at 10, test for at less than 5

10 is not less than 5, so the loop condition fails immediately

this is a question on a practise exam paper

this is exactly what it says.....

write a for statement which assigns x the value of 10, test if less than 5, and decrement each time the for loop is executed.????

do you not think it can be done then???

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Yes it can be done.
Yes, you've just written it successfully.
Yes, you've just found out that it runs zero times.

An odd question for sure, but your code matches the description.

thanks it is really strange tho not sure if the q is a misprint

What is the test for.

Clarify that, and try nesting an "if" loop to achieve the desired result.

Good luck.