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### for

#### Synopsis

For ordinal index variables:

    for ordinal_variable := initial_value to final_value do
      statement

or

    for ordinal_variable := initial_value downto final_value do
      statement

For sets:

    for set_element_type_variable in some_set do
      statement

For pointer index variables:

    for pointer_variable := initial_address to final_address do
      statement

or

    for pointer_variable := initial_address downto final_address do
      statement

@@ Set member iteration

#### Description

The `for` statement is a count loop. For further information see for Statement.

#### Conforming to

`for` is defined in ISO 7185 Pascal and supported by all Pascal variants. Iteration of Pointers is a Borland Pascal extension. Set member iteration is an ISO 10206 Extended Pascal extension.

#### Example

    program ForDemo;
    var
      CharSet: set of Char;
      c: Char;
      n: Integer;
      Fac: array [0 .. 10] of Integer;
      PInt: ^Integer;
    begin
       CharSet := ['g', 'p', 'c'];
       for c in CharSet do
         WriteLn (c);  { prints `c', `g', `p' in three lines }
       Fac[0] := 1;
       for n := 1 to 10 do  { computes the factorial of n for n = 0 .. 10 }
         Fac[n] := Fac[n - 1] * n;
       {$X+}
       { prints n! for n = 0 .. 10 }
       for PInt := @Fac[0] to @Fac[10] do
         WriteLn (PInt - @Fac[0], '! = ', PInt^)
    end.

#### See also

Keywords, Set Types, Pointer Arithmetics