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JavaScript JavaScript Loops, Arrays and Objects Simplify Repetitive Tasks with Loops For Loops

Posted by Baran Ureten
Baran Ureten
5,749 Points

increment

is it possible to use i++ instead of i+=1 ??

does javascript accept increments such as "++i" or "i++" ?

edit: so, do both pre and post increments exist in javascript?

3 Answers

Shawn Boyd
Shawn Boyd
14,345 Points

Although it's hard to find concise documentation on this, you can see that both pre- and post-incrementation work by testing them out. Pop open your Chrome DevTools console and run something like this line by line.

test = 0 (returns 0)
test++ (returns 0)
test (returns 1)
++test (returns 2)
test (returns 2)
Baran Ureten
Baran Ureten
5,749 Points

thanks!

David Lacedonia
David Lacedonia
13,627 Points
David Lacedonia
David Lacedonia
13,627 Points

Yes, it is possible.

You can do...

number++;

and number will increment by 1

Gavin Murphy
Gavin Murphy
10,004 Points
Gavin Murphy
Gavin Murphy
10,004 Points

Yes it is certainly possible to use either i++ or i += 1. As far as i know you can also use ++i but the proper convention is i++. I hope this helped.

:-)