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why, is this weird behaviour of c++?
By rashid_aziz, history, 2 years ago, In English

include

using namespace std; int main() { string s = "abcd"; int i = -1; while(i < s.size()){ cout << "inside "; i++; } cout << "outside"; return 0; }

why this loop does not run, where as when we initialize i = 0, then it runs properly

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You make a comparison between i, which is a signed int, and s.size(), which of an unsigned type. One of them must be casted to the type of the other one in order for the comparison to be calculated. Try casting s.size() to int manually and the code will run

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