what is this for loop

[rpjanaka]

hi all
im janaka priyadarsahana,

i got this code segment from the sun java tutorial. but cant understand how this for loop works.

out.print("File system roots: ");
for (File root : File.listRoots()) {
out.format("%s ", root);
}
out.println();

please if anyone can help me......

thank you......

[masijade]

Read up in the Java 5.0/JDK 1.5 New Features Document at Sun. This is the "improved for loop or so-called for each loop".

[fdrage]

the for loop is newly introduced in 1.5 its basically says for each file in the listRoot do

out.format("%s ", root);