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:

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 if (someBoolean){
someEvent}

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But the test sometimes write the if statement like:

Code :

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 if (something; somethingElse; somethingElseElse;)

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

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Originally Posted by lanmonster

But the test sometimes write the if statement like:

Code :

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 if (something; somethingElse; somethingElseElse;)

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

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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 :P