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Re: for :each style question

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From	Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com>
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Subject	Re: for :each style question
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On 11/30/2011 3:32 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
> In a for:each loop, sometimes you want to treat the first and or last
> element specially.
>
> The obvious way to handle is to revert to a for int i= loop and check
> for special values of i.
>
> You can keep the for:each style if you have a boolean first= true that
> you set false to detect the first.
>
> I don't know of an equivalent way to detect the last.
>
> In the olden days I would have handled the first and last cases
> outside the loop, with the loop running over the middle elements. You
> can't do that with for:each.
>
> What do you consider the best style to deal with this?

public class test {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         int ns[] = new int[23];
         int last = 0;

         for (int i=0; i<ns.length; i++)
             ns[i] = i;

         for (int n : ns) {
             last = n;
         }

         System.out.println(last);
     }
}

It's not elegant but it works.

-- 

Knute Johnson

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for :each style question Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-30 15:32 -0800
  Re: for :each style question Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-30 19:28 -0500
    Re: for :each style question Chris Riesbeck <Chris.Riesbeck@gmail.com> - 2011-12-05 14:28 -0600
  Re: for :each style question Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-11-30 16:49 -0800
    Re: for :each style question Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-11-30 18:23 -0800
      Re: for :each style question Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-10 13:28 +0100
        Re: for :each style question Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-12-12 12:07 -0800
          Re: for :each style question Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-13 08:08 -0800
            Re: for :each style question Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-12-13 12:07 -0800
          Re: for :each style question Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-17 16:20 +0100
        Re: for :each style question Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2011-12-14 14:31 -0700
          Re: for :each style question Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-14 16:53 -0800
            Re: for :each style question Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-12-15 16:16 -0800
          Re: for :each style question Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-17 12:31 +0100
  Re: for :each style question Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-30 21:35 -0500
  Re: for :each style question Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-30 19:12 -0800
  Re: for :each style question Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-01 23:36 +0100
  Re: for :each style question Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2011-12-04 19:43 +0000

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