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What will the following program print?

Answer : It will print 3
Can any one explain me how do we get such an output? specially when there are 3 for loops nested one in one?
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I have found the best way to attack any loop question like this is by writing up a small chart on paper & incrementing your variables like that. Keeping track of this by eye can be flustering. In this example the values going thru the loops are as follows: i-k repectively. Remeber when the condition is true the prog breaks(first line after the if since no braces are used, when false it increments counter.
000 (0-0>0)false counter 1
001 (1-0>0) true counter=1
011 (1-1>0) false counter=2
012 (2-1>0) true counter=2
022 (2-2>0) false counter=3
After that you start dropping out of the loops because you have incremented k, j to 3 (respectively) The outer loop then increments but the inner variables are already 3 so nothing happens in those loops.
[ January 13, 2002: Message edited by: DC Dalton ]
 
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I think the value of i in outer instead j in middle is incremented after every "break middle" statement.
pls see the following code

the result will be
i=0 j=0 k=0 counter=1
i=0 j=0 k=1
i=1 j=0 k=0 counter=2
i=1 j=0 k=1
i=2 j=0 k=0 counter=3
i=2 j=0 k=1
3
[ January 13, 2002: Message edited by: patrick tang ]
 
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Hey guys
I am still not clear with the concept.I tried working it out on a paper.
i=0,j=0,k=0 (0-0>0) false
i=0,j=0,k=1(1-0>0)true--->counter 1;
i=0,j=1,k=1(1-1>0)false
i=0,j=1,k=2(2-1>0)true---->counter 2;
1=0;j=2,k=2(2-2>0)false
I am thorough till here.Can any one explain me the steps from now with reasons..

Sonir
 
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Well when your wrong your wrong, (serves me right for trying to answer a question while studying!) The label is used with the break to terminate THAT loop and any inside of it. So as I was so correctly corrected i increments NOT the inner variables.
Put printlns after each for statement and after the counter increment & you will see the results step by step. This is what comes out:
F:\JavaProgs>java LoopTest
i is: 0
j is: 0
k is: 0
Counter is: 1
k is: 1
i is: 1
j is: 0
k is: 0
Counter is: 2
k is: 1
i is: 2
j is: 0
k is: 0
Counter is: 3
k is: 1
3
So the final answer is 3.
[ January 13, 2002: Message edited by: DC Dalton ]
 
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