in reply to Loop Quandary
My guess is in the first loop the match happens on the same string each time, so you'll find each a in turn then exit the loop
In the second example, you call InfStr on every cycle of the loop, which makes it a regex against a new string, so it'll find the first a in the string each time and never progress
(Update: You can see this more clearly if you use (.) instead of (a) for the match; first loop will go through each letter, second on will always find the first a)
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Re^2: Loop Quandary
by choroba (Cardinal) on Nov 21, 2013 at 23:45 UTC |
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