Infinite FOR loop issue

[basanth27]

As far as i have learned,
For Loop in Vbscript is a conditional statement which iterates based on the condition specified. Unlike C & Java the variable in the iteration is not updated during execution.

The loop is not exiting because i value has reached 5 but because you have specified only 5 iterations.

Code:

j=5
for i = 1 to j
j=j+1
Next

In this case if you give j=10, it will exit after 10 iterations. Now, the increment done on j is not being updated to the variable on the conditional statement.

You could do this in Java or C without specifying the end , for eg :

Code:

for(i=0;;i++)

this will keep executing till it reaches the maximum value for the defined datatype. There is no such thing called Infinity.

As far as i know, in vbscript, you could use the while loop to create an unconditional iteration.

For eg:

Code:

i=2
Do
j=j+1
msgbox j
Loop Until i=1

Probably, if the For Loop in vbscript could be pushed to be so, i would really like to learn about it.