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Sep

4

2011

What reasons would I want to use a foreach loop over a for loop.

I’ve read, that at best a foreach loop will be just as good, but usually perform less as well as the for loop.

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The only reason I can see to use foreach over for, is that the same bit of code can be written with a little less code than than the for loop.

With that being said, the compiler seems to be doing a little more work in the background than with the for loop.

It maybe worth your while to use a for loop instead of the foreach loop. The few less characters with the foreach loop may not be worth the seconds you saved while writing your code.

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