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'for' loop with missing components

Reports for loops that lack initialization, condition, or update clauses. Some coding styles prohibit such loops.

Example:

for (int i = 0;;i++) { // body }

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

ForLoopWithMissingComponent
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Java | Control flow issues

Use the Ignore collection iterations option to ignore loops which use an iterator. This is a standard way to iterate over a collection in which the for loop does not have an update clause.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the 'for' loop with missing components inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Ignore collection iterations

Default value:

Not selected

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection ForLoopWithMissingComponent

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025