if statement syntax question

[lanmonster]

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?

[curmudgeon]

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.

[lanmonster]

*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