In a “for” statement, should I use `!=` or `<`?

Question

I\'ve seen both of these two for statements:

for(i=0;i<10;i++) 

for(i=0;i!=10;i++)

I know they all stop when i reaches 10 , bu

Answer 1

for ( initialization ; termination condition ; iteration )

For each of those , choose youself the best one to fit your requirements, for termination condition you can use any of the binary conditional operators such as > ,< ,>= ,<= ,!=

For your given question , consider a random case in which,

for(i=0;i!=10;i++)
{
 .
 .
 i=11; //somewhere if the loop variable is changed to a value greater than 10 (this assumption is solely for demo)
 .
 .
 .
}

In this case, the loop turns out to be infinite. rather if you use a condition i<10, this works as usual. so my point is that the first approach is a bit more safer to set condition strictly.