Question

I’m attempting to compare two string arrays. Whenever I get to the while loop inside of the if statement, I get stuck in an infinite loop because even though I have an iterator inside of the loop, it doesn’t increment. I have the cout<< finder; in the loop just to see what finder is at, and it never increments above zero. If anyone could help I’d really appreciate it.

if (memory[p] == "J")
    {
        if (is_number(memory[p+1]))
        {
            worker = atoi(memory[p+1].c_str());
            p = worker;
            continue;
        }
        else
        {
            int finder = 0;
            while (memory[p+1] != Symtablelab[finder])
            {
                cout << finder;
                finder = finder + 1;
            }

            if (memory[p+1] == Symtablelab[finder])
            {
                int k = Symtablepos[finder];
                worker = atoi(memory[k].c_str());

                p = worker;
                continue;
            }
        }
    }

Answer 1

You said finder never increments above zero. Does it print finder = 0 at all? If it does, it means

memory[p+1] = Symtablelab[1]

just after 1st iteration, so the while loop gets terminated and finder sticks at 1.

EDIT
If you say, it prints finder = 0 continuously inside the while statement, then probably you have if (memory[p] == "J") inside an outer for or while (looping) statement.