# Looping craziness

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looping-craziness/323507>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 5, 2011, 12:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looping-craziness/323507 "2011-07-05T00:25:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pherank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@Pherank](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Pherank)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 12:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looping-craziness/323507/1 "2011-07-05T00:25:03Z")

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I’m probably missing something obvious here, but I don’t understand why I’m not getting 12

```auto
<br />

```

tags with this loop, but more like one hundred!

```auto

var lineBreak:String = "<br />";
var offset:uint = 12;
for (var i = 1; i < offset; i++) {
    lineBreak += lineBreak;
    trace(i);
}
trace(lineBreak);

```