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Java Java Objects Creating the MVP Current Progress

lidor nir
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What is going on in that loop ?

Can someone explain this loop? is he declaring a char at the for statement? whats is going on ? how can you use ":" and what does it mean, did i skip a few videos or something?

Noam Levy
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Noam Levy
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this is the "enhanced for loop" and it is used when you need to go through all the instances in a variable, when you can't tell how many times the loop should run or when you dont need an index for the times the loop ran. so as the video shows:

for (char letter : example.toCharArray()) {
System.out.println("We've got the letter " + letter);
 }
/* this enhanced for loop means - for every instance in (which replaced by ':') the example array 
(that you turn to array of characters)
 store the instance in the new char variable "letter" and print the line + what's stored in the "letter" variable*/

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lidor nir
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lidor nir
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yeah he answered it later in another course and it's all clear now. Thank you very much for your help!