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The for-in statement is used to iterate through a set of values. The for-in statement is generally used in the following way.

for(variable in range) { 
   statement #1 
   statement #2 
   … 
}

The following diagram shows the diagrammatic explanation of this loop.

Following is an example of a for-in statement −

class Example { 
   static void main(String[] args) { 
      int[] array = [0,1,2,3]; 
		
      for(int i in array) { 
         println(i); 
      } 
   } 
}

In the above example, we are first initializing an array of integers with 4 values of 0,1,2 and 3. We are then using our for loop statement to first define a variable i which then iterates through all of the integers in the array and prints the values accordingly. The output of the above code would be −

0 
1 
2 
3

The for-in statement can also be used to loop through ranges. The following example shows how this can be accomplished.

class Example {
   static void main(String[] args) {
	
      for(int i in 1..5) {
         println(i);
      }
		
   } 
} 

In the above example, we are actually looping through a range which is defined from 1 to 5 and printing the each value in the range. The output of the above code would be −

1 
2 
3 
4 
5 

The for-in statement can also be used to loop through Map’s. The following example shows how this can be accomplished.

class Example {
   static void main(String[] args) {
      def employee = ["Ken" : 21, "John" : 25, "Sally" : 22];
		
      for(emp in employee) {
         println(emp);
      }
   }
}

In the above example, we are actually looping through a map which has a defined set of key value entries. The output of the above code would be −

Ken = 21 
John = 25 
Sally = 22 

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