Having Trouble with Nested Loops

[jc4bs]

I am writing a code that utilizes a nested loop, just one for loop inside another. Within the inner loop, I need an if statement that if true, would stop the inner loop but not the outer. I have tried many things such as break, continue, and even goto, but nothing seems to work. Here is the nested loop:

        for (int i = 0; i < strlen(text); i++)
	{
		int counter = 0;
		for (int y = 0; y < strlen(text); y++)
		{
			if (text[i] == text[y])
				counter++;
		}
		for (int y = 0; y <= i; y++)
		{
				if (i == 0)
					cout << counter << " " << text[i] << endl;
				if (text[i] == text[y])
					// Inner for-loop needs to stop here if true.
				if (y == i)
					cout << counter << " " << text[i] << endl;
		}
	}

[MrHutch]

break should stop the inner loop.

Have to tried printing out some debug statements to see if it works?

[jc4bs]

I have located the problem. For some reason, (text[i] == text[y]) is always true, but only in the for statement at 9 and not the one at 4. Any ideas as to what is wrong in that for loop?