Iterate through string array in Java

Question

I have String array with some components, this array has 5 components and it vary some times. What I would like to do is to iterate through that array and get the first comp

Answer 1

Those algorithms are both incorrect because of the comparison:

for( int i = 0; i < elements.length - 1; i++)

or

for(int i = 0; i + 1 < elements.length; i++) {

It's true that the array elements range from 0 to length - 1, but the comparison in that case should be less than or equal to. Those should be:

for(int i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {

or

for(int i = 0; i <= elements.length - 1; i++) {

or

for(int i = 0; i + 1 <= elements.length; i++) {

The array ["a", "b"] would iterate as:

i = 0 is < 2: elements[0] yields "a"

i = 1 is < 2: elements[1] yields "b"

then exit the loop because 2 is not < 2.

The incorrect examples both exit the loop prematurely and only execute with the first element in this simple case of two elements.