Conditional loop

[pkonshak]

Hi,

I have what I thought was a simple conditional loop to find each occurence of a serach string within a variable. Basically trying to find the occurence, note it, then move on. If findnocase can't find an occurence, it should return 0, ending the loop:

<cfset findvar = 1>

<Cfloop condition="findvar GT 0">
<cfoutput>
<cfset findvar = #findnocase("#form.searchterm#","#searchfile#",#findvar#)#>
Position in file: #findvar#<br>

</cfoutput>
</cfloop>

This doesn't work at all. Just spins forever and never returns a result.

...help? Thanks!

[BKBK · Accepted solution]

<Cfloop condition="findvar GT 0">
<cfset findvar = findnocase(form.searchterm, searchfile, findvar+1)>
Position in file: <cfoutput>#findvar#</cfoutput><br>
</cfloop>

[pkonshak]

This worked great...thanks so much.

Though I'm not sure why mine didn't work (something with the variables..?)

[Dan_Bracuk]

quote:

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Originally posted by: pkonshak
This worked great...thanks so much.

Though I'm not sure why mine didn't work (something with the variables..?)

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Your's didn't work because you didn't change the value of your variable each time through the loop.

[Newsgroup_User]

pkonshak wrote:
> This worked great...thanks so much.
>
> Though I'm not sure why mine didn't work (something with the variables..?)

You didn't have the findvar + 1. So subsequent searches, after the fist
loop iteration, started right at the first found string. Thus finding
it again and again and again and again and again... I think you get the
idea.