CodeSOD: Mid-Stream Switch

Submitter James writes: "I'm working on a project that has as one of its components a Microsoft App for Excel 2013. My team lead wrote most of the app up to this point, and I'm adding features. While exploring her code, I ran into this little gem (in JavaScript):"

function ClearData() { var spn = document.getElementById("spntest"); spn.innerHTML = ""; var def = $.Deferred(); var arBlankMiddle = new Array(); var arNull = new Array(); arNull.push(0); spn.innerHTML = ""; for (var i = 1; i 

James explains: "writeData() is a function that writes to Excel given the specified range and data. So it looks like she started with an iterative approach, but in the middle switched to a non-iterative one, but left the half-finished iterative code in. I'm speechless."

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