Re: [FWP] A major screw-up: infinite loop

[Jeff Pinyan <jeffp@crusoe.net>]

On Jul 31, abigail@foad.org said:

>On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:42:14AM -0400, Paul King wrote:
>> > Oh, parseDate set $i to 12, and it was incremented to 13 by the for loop.
>> > 12 does make more sense in a function called parseDate.  :)
>> >
>> > Ronald
>> 
>> I was pretty picky about this question, because on the face of it the problem
>> looks very simple. A global variable $i was "clobbered", as some have said,
>> by dateParse. But I wanted you to go a little beyond that. Why 13? Why not
>> some other number? And it looksas if Ronald has come the closest. It has to
>> do with ParseDate, which has an associative array of months, of which
>> there are 12. The $i that is in that function loops through the months. When
>> it exits, the calling routine always increments 12 to 13.
>
>
>Several things:

Those points are all nice and valid, Abigail, but the OP said he was using
his OWN library of date manipulation functions.

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