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Java Arrays

Bhanu Awasthi
Bhanu Awasthi
1,780 Points
Posted by Bhanu Awasthi
Bhanu Awasthi
1,780 Points

What does this mean - "i<jacksons.length" ?

String[] jacksons = {"Michael", "Jackie", "Tito", "Jermaine", "Marlon", "Randy"};

console.printf("The Jackson 5 are: %n");
for (int i = 0; i < jacksons.length; i++) {
  String jackson = jacksons[i];
  console.printf("%s Jackson %n", jackson);
}

} }

1 Answer

Luke Pettway
Luke Pettway
16,593 Points
Luke Pettway
Luke Pettway
16,593 Points

The second part of the for loop is the test condition. Each time the loop iterates it checks agains it to see if it should run again. In this loop it is saying Loop through the items while the variable i is less than the length of the array ( the number of the items in the array).

Here is a nice flowchart and further explanation:

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/javascript/javascript_for_loop.htm