Why won't this variable increment!

[coolman50544]

I am trying to increment a variable named counterVariable each time it goes through a for enhanced loop. It is stuck on 0. Could someone explain why and how to fix this?

valuesProcessor:
        for(String[] row : values)
        {
            for(String col : row)
            {
                int counterVariable = 0;
                if(col == null)
                    break valuesProcessor;
                else if(counterVariable == 0)
                    System.out.printf("%s", col);
                else if(counterVariable == 1)
                    System.out.printf("%10s", col);
                else if(counterVariable == 2)
                    System.out.printf("%130s", col);
                else if(counterVariable == 3)
                    System.out.printf("%1330s", col);
                System.out.print(" ");
                counterVariable++;
            }
            System.out.println();
        }

[jim829]

Well, for one thing, you keep resetting it to 0 in the inner loop. And to complicate matters, when you exit the inner loop, the variable goes out of scope.


Regards,
Jim