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increment problem in for loop

 
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Hi,

Is it invalid to increment or decrement the loop variable in java by a value greater than 1?I get an error if write a loop as:

for (int i=0;i<100;i+10)

Pls help.
Thanks
 
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No, you can increment a value greater then one.

The problem is i+10, where does the new value get stored with no assignment operator?
 
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Thanks!
 
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Yes you can increment by 10, but you are not incrementing anything in your example. Infact it wont compile. You will need to do something like:

 
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