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I'm baffled by this - I am trying to master for loops and I seem to have run into a snag.  I looked up w3's nested for loops and got an example ( you can find it @ javascript statements and click on the 'for' link - at the bottom of the page) and it works great and I understand it .  Then I tried to inject an 'if' statement to interrupt it on a condition, but I got some unexpected results and I can't see what is wrong.  The logic seems correct - maybe someone can help me.   The 1st listing is directly from the example and in the second listing I injected a 2 line if statement - I got the results   I=o, j = 2 993 994   and there it stopped.   I also changed the values of i & j, but I don't see why that matters.   Thanks for any help! 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<p>In this example, we have two loops. Because there is one loop that is inside the other, we call this a nested loop. The first loop is often called an "outer loop", and the second is often called the "inner loop" because it is inside the first, outer loop.</p>

<p>The outer loop executes first, and for each time the outer loop is executed, the inner loop will also execute.</p>

<button onclick="myFunction()">Try it</button>

<p id="demo"></p>

<script>
function myFunction() {
    var text = "";
    var i, j;

    for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
        text += "<br>" + "i = " + i + ", j = ";   

        for (j = 10; j < 15; j++) {
            document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = text += j + " ";
        }
    }
}
</script>

</body>
</html>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<button onclick="myFunction()">Try it</button>

<p id="demo"></p>

<script>
function myFunction() {
    var text = "";
    var i, j;

    for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
        text += "<br>" + "i = " + i + ", j = ";   

        for (j = 2; j < 5; j++) {
            document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = text += j + " ";
            if (i = j) {
            	text += 99;
            }
        }
    }
}
</script>

</body>
</html>

 

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