Thread: if statement syntax question

I am in a computer science academic event and in the practice tests, they give a code fragment and ask what the output will be. I know that the if statement can be notated like:

 if (someBoolean){
someEvent}

But the test sometimes write the if statement like:

 if (something; somethingElse; somethingElseElse;)

I need to know how to understand the second example. What does it mean and what kind of things go before each semicolon?

Originally Posted by lanmonster

But the test sometimes write the if statement like:

 if (something; somethingElse; somethingElseElse;)

I need to know how to understand the second example. What does it mean and what kind of things go before each semicolon?

That is not valid Java code.

*derp* got mixed up. They do for statements like that, which is probably the right way to do it. I have not learned the for statement yet. My bad