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  for loop
       
           A loop construct found in many imperative
          programming languages which repeatedly executes some
          instructions while a condition is true.
       
          In C, the for loop is written in the form;
       
           for (INITIALISATION; CONDITION; AFTER)
             STATEMENT;
       
          where INITIALISATION is an expression that is evaluated once
          before the loop, CONDITION is evaluated before each iteration
          and the loop exits if it is false, AFTER is evaluated after
          each iteration, and STATEMENT is any statement including a
          compound+statement+within+braces+"{.." rel="nofollow">compound statement within braces "{.." that is executed if
          CONDITION is true.
       
          For example:
       
           int i;
           for (i = 0; i < 10; i++)
           {
             printf("Hello\n");
           
       
          prints "Hello" 10 times.
       
          The for loop is an alternative way of writing a while loop
          that is convenient because the loop control logic is collected
          in a single place.  It is also closely related to the repeat
          loop.
       
          (1999-07-07)
       
       

  for loop
     n.
     (lb en programming) A section of code in which an instruction or
  group of instructions is executed a specific number of times depending
  on the value of a loop counter.

  for loop
     n.
     (lb en programming) A section of code in which an instruction or
  group of instructions is executed a specific number of times depending
  on the value of a loop counter.

  for loop
     n.
     (lb en programming) A section of code in which an instruction or
  group of instructions is executed a specific number of times depending
  on the value of a loop counter.

  for loop
     n.
     (lb en programming) A section of code in which an instruction or
  group of instructions is executed a specific number of times depending
  on the value of a loop counter.

  FOR loop /fɔː lˈuːp/
  Zählschleife  [comp.]