<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143267" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Repeats the statements between the For...Next block a specified number of times.</paragraph>
<emph>Counter:</emph> Loop counter initially assigned the value to the right of the equal sign (start). Only numeric variables are valid. The loop counter increases or decreases according to the variable Step until End is passed.</paragraph>
<emph>Step:</emph> Sets the value by which to increase or decrease the loop counter. If Step is not specified, the loop counter is incremented by 1. In this case, End must be greater than Start. If you want to decrease Counter, End must be less than Start, and Step must be assigned a negative value.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154684" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">The <emph>For...Next</emph> loop repeats all of the statements in the loop for the number of times that is specified by the parameters.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147287" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">As the counter variable is decreased, $[officename] Basic checks if the end value has been reached. As soon as the counter passes the end value, the loop automatically ends.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159154" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">It is possible to nest <emph>For...Next</emph> statements. If you do not specify a variable following the <emph>Next</emph> statement, <emph>Next</emph> automatically refers to the most recent <emph>For</emph> statement.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155306" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">If you specify an increment of 0, the statements between <emph>For</emph> and <emph>Next</emph> are repeated continuously.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155854" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">When counting down the counter variable, $[officename] Basic checks for overflow or underflow. The loop ends when Counter exceeds End (positive Step value) or is less than End (negative Step value).</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145273" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">Use the <emph>Exit For</emph> statement to exit the loop unconditionally. This statement must be within a <emph>For...Next</emph> loop. Use the <emph>If...Then</emph> statement to test the exit condition as follows:</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156286" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25">Note: In nested <emph>For...Next</emph> loops, if you exit a loop unconditionally with <emph>Exit For</emph>, only one loop is exited.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151074" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="27">The following example uses two nested loops to sort a string array with 10 elements ( sEntry() ), that are first filled with various contents:</paragraph>
