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Conditional Branching: The FOR Statement		Date*
03/31/2026		Source (or email address if you prefer)*
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The For statement gives you the ability to execute a block of code a certain number of times.		Type*
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For instance, if you prompted a user how many students were in a class, and the user entered `6', you could then ask for six student names. The For statement uses a counter to keep track of how many times the loop has been executed. The counter is a variable, usually of type integer or variant, which is incremented automatically by one when the Next statement is executed.
Syntax
For counter = first To last First represents the first number to increment from, last is the number to increment to.
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Next

The following example displays the counter as it is incremented five times.

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Dim X As Variant
For X = 1 To 5
MessageBox X
Next

This example asks how many times it should display its message. It then displays the message the number of times you specify. Notice the value for X is the number you entered. This is how the loop executes the correct number of times.

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Dim I As Variant 'Declare I as type Variant
Dim X As Variant 'Declare X as type Variant
X = Inputbox("Number of times to see the message?") 'Get number of times to ask
'user for a number
While Not Isnumeric(X) 'While X is not a number
X = Inputbox("Enter a number!") 'Ask for a value that is numeric
Wend 'End of WHILE loop
For I = 1 To X 'For X number of times, execute
'the following code
Messagebox("This is message " + Cstr(I)) 'Show the user how many times
'the loop has executed
Next 'End of FOR loop