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What happens when we add a semi colon after for loop in c language?

with a example and with a definition

12th Nov 2019, 8:15 AM
Arjun T Raju
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Nice question Arjun. e.g. for(a=1;a<=5;a++); printf("%d",a) here, in above example, you can see that there is a semicolon after for(a=1;a<=5;a++). so in this case the loop executes as: for(a=1;a<=5;a++) ; printf("%d",a) it means that the loop keeps rotating between for(a=1;a<=5;a++) and ;(semicolon) when the condition becomes false i.e. a=6 then if comes out of the semicolon and prints 6 as an output, but the expected output is 12345. so it becomes wrong but not error. e.g.a=1; while(a<=5); { printf("%d",a); a++; } here in the above example, the loop is infinite because it keeps rotating between while(a<=5) and the ;(semicolon) here is no change in value in 'a' the loop is infinite. e.g. a=1; do;{ printf("%d"a); a++; }while(a<=5); here in the above example ;(semicolon) after the while is required, its a rule. but after the do it is not. the do will get executed after that 1 is printed, a++ will also occur because in c you can add curly brackets (braces) to every single statement it won't cause error but the while can't rotate the loop and makes our program wrong.
12th Nov 2019, 8:44 AM
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