Array with decrement operator

Can someone please help me with the following issue?

I tried to process some data in an array using �for� loop and came across following problem with the condition statement.

int [] intArray = {1,5,4,6};
for(int x = intArray.length-1; x = =0; x--){
System.out.println(intArray[x]);
}

Since the condition statement should be of Boolean type I used �x= =0 � and also I tried �x<=0� but both compiles OK, not running and no run time errors.

When I changed to �x>=0� it works perfectly. I�m bit confused why this is happening.

Regards,
Devaraj

The body of the for loop is executed as long as the conditional statement is true. So you should use x >= 0, then it will loop unitl x gets to zero, what is what you want.

Thanks bart zagers, I guess the condition statement should be always applied so that it does not refer to "0" initially.

Just to explain it properly

for statement

BTW: Did you really write x = =0? You can't have a space between the two = in an equality operator.

well, I didnt have any space in between the two equal signs. (==)

thanks

The space might have been a misprint wherever you found your example.