I don't see why your infinite loop isn't working, but there are several other ways to write them:

while(1) {
  ...
}
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OR

{
  ...
  redo
}
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OR

while() {
  ...
}
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OR

do {
  ...
} while 1;
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OR

do {
  ...
} until 0;
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See if one of these does what you need...

-Blake