For Loops - infinite loop :-S

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#1

//hi guys, wrapping my head around an exercise from the Eloquent Javascript book
//can anyone analyse this please?

let char1 = “#”;
for (let counter = 0; counter < 6; counter + 1) {
console.log(char1);
char = char + “#”;
}

#2

I understand your feeling.

This part is wrong:

counter + 1

This simply means “the value” of counter+1 but it is not storing to anything.
If you want to increase counter by one, you do like this:

counter = counter + 1 
counter += 1
counter++

All three have the same effect. The first one is adding counter by 1 and then it is storing that value to the same counter. The second one and third one is incrementing itself (counter) by 1.

You were experiencing infinite loop because the counter was never increasing.

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