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Consider the following:

for (int counter = 1; counter < 1; counter -)
How many times will the loop execute?

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Member Avatar for adarshcu

How about you put a print inside the loop ?

Member Avatar for SoreComet

The Loop will not be executed. The condition for the Loop fails as 1 < 1 is false

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Member Avatar for JamesCherrill

It will not be executed becuase it cannot be compiled.
counter -
is not valid Java

commented: I saw that too. Good catch. +3
Member Avatar for rohit.deshmukh2009

As JamesCherrill pointed out, there is a syntax error, but if you change it to for (int counter = 1; counter < 1; counter--), it will not run, because counter is initialised to 1, the condition checks if it is < 1, so it fails, and the loop doesn't run. If you are thinking about writing an infinite loop, initialise counter to 0.

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