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I have following code snippet and the output i am getting is 4. Please explain me if it takes i=2 or 0. I am confused. And How output was 4?

开发者_StackOverflow社区int main() {  
   int i=2;
   for(i=0;i<2;i++) {
      i=i%3;
      if(i==2) {
          i++;
          continue; }
      else
          ++i;  
   }
   printf("%d",i); 
}

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The loop starts with i = 0. Both the if and the else to exactly the same thing. Increment i and continue.
If you use a bit of logic, the whole block can be reduced to i++ (i = i % 3 has no effect since i < 2).

It's not possible to get 4 with the code you posted.

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The output cannot be 4 for the program you posted, because by the time the loop breaks, the value of i would be 2, not 4 and the loop will run exactly once.

Also, your code never enters the if block, because the condition is i==2 which can never be true inside the for loop, as by that time the loop would be exited.

So your code is equivalent to this:

int main() {  
   int i=2;
   for(i=0;i<2;i++) {
      i++;
   }
   printf("%d",i); 
}