Thread: For Loops!!!

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    Question For Loops!!!

    I dont understand for loops, like this one:


    Code:
    #include <iostream.h>       
    int main()	      	
    {         
    for(int x=0;x<100;x++) 
    {			            			       cout<<x<<endl;           
    }
    std::cin.get();
    return 0;
    }

    How can I make it go up by 5, or by 10 till it gets to 100, how does the x++ work? I get x=0 and x<100, but not x++... can someone explain for loops to me?

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    Re: For Loops!!!

    Originally posted by Nailogamer
    I dont understand for loops, like this one:


    Code:
    #include <iostream.h>       
    int main()	      	
    {         
    for(int x=0;x<100;x++) 
    {			            			       cout<<x<<endl;           
    }
    std::cin.get();
    return 0;
    }

    -How can I make it go up by 5, or by 10 till it gets to 100?
    ----------
    -how does the x++ work?
    -for(int x=0;x<100;x+=10)
    ----------
    - ++ is an increment operator, which means it adds the number by one.

    So if you had the following code,

    int x=5;
    x++;

    x would be 6.

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    x++;
    is the same as
    x + 1;

    You should read Tutorial : loops

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    ok..

    Nailogamer wrote: For Loops!!!
    For Loops!!!
    I dont understand for loops, like this one:
    Code:
    code:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    #include <iostream.h>       
    int main()	      	
    {         
    for(int x=0;x<100;x++) 
    {			            			       cout<<x<<endl;           
    }
    std::cin.get();
    return 0;
    }
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
    
    
    How can I make it go up by 5, or by 10 till it gets to 100, how does the x++ work? I get x=0 and x<100, but not x++... can someone explain for loops to me?

    This should work fine
    Code:
    #include <iostream> // iostream.h will also work
    
    int main()	      	
    {         
    for(int x=0;x<100;x+=5)  // increment each value of x by 5;
     {
    cout<<x<<endl;           
    }
    std::cin.get();
    return 0;
    }
     //Or even if you dont get this then have look at this
    int main()	      	
    {         
    for(int x=0;x<100;)  //  No increment here
    {
    x = x + 5;               //increment each value of x by 5;
    cout<<x<<endl;           
    }
    std::cin.get();
    return 0;
    }
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    Cool Loops are beautiful, man !

    Take it slow, and make sure you understand loops... for-loops, do-loops, and do-while-loops.

    Because, loops (doing stuff over-and-over) and decision making ("branching" with if and switch/case statements) are the two basic concepts that make all programming worthwhile!

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    Originally posted by laasunde
    x++;
    is the same as
    x + 1;

    You should read Tutorial : loops
    No, imho x++ equals x=x+1.


    Code:
    for(int x=0;x<100;x++)
    int x=0 creates and initializes an integer variable with the value 0.

    After the first semicolon, x<100 is the condition for the loop. The loop will end if this condition returns false (i.e. assume "x" is 101 then the condition would be 101<100 which is not true and would cause "for" to exit the loop)

    After the second semicolon, x++ means that x will be incremented by one for every time the the code in the loop has been executed.

    Notice that the order is important.

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