The concept of a foreach loop as mentioned in Wikipedia is highlighted below:
Unlike other for loop constructs, however, foreach loops usually maintain no explicit counter: they essentially say "do this to everything in this set", rather than "do this x times". This avoids potential off-by-one errors and makes code simpler to read.
So the concept of a foreach loop describes that the loop does not use any explicit counter which means that there is no need of using indexes to traverse in the list thus it saves user from off-by-one error. To describe the general concept of this off-by-one error, let us take an example of a loop to traverse in a list using indexes.
// In this loop it is assumed that the list starts with index 0for(int i=0; i<list.length; i++){}But suppose if the list starts with index 1 then this loop is going to throw an exception as it will found no element at index 0 and this error is called an off-by-one error. So to avoid this off-by-one error the concept of a foreach loop is used. There may be other advantages too, but this is what I think is the main concept and advantage of using a foreach loop.