Counting how many times I've compared

[hopesfall]

I have the following for loop that compares some values before being entered:

for (;(loc > 0) && (theArray[loc-1 ]> nextItem); --loc){ 
		 counter++;
         // shift theArray[loc-1] to the right
         theArray[loc] = theArray[loc-1];
	  }

How can I keep track of how many times the for statement is hit? I mean, I know I would use a counter to keep track of how many times the loop is entered but what if the condition ((loc > 0) && (theArray[loc-1 ]> nextItem)) fails and I still want to make sure I count the comparison that happened?

[webJose]

How about this? Didn't test it but I guess it works.

int conditionCounter = 0;
for (;++conditionCounter, (loc > 0) && (theArray[loc-1 ]> nextItem); --loc)
{
    ....
}

Based on the comma operator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_operator ).