Infinite loop and ERRORS! I just can't get t right

[sixthcrusifix]

I just do not know where my error is occuring or why teh script doesn't work but I thought maybe somone who's had sleep in teh past 16 hours might be able to spot it out.

There's a form, you input words. You can seperate them with commas and then count the number of unique words (Or spaces I could have done spaces) or you can see how many premutations (letter combos) each one has. Letter combos worked fine but unique word counting failed miserably.

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<?php

if(isset($_POST['action'])){

if($_POST['action'] == "preM"){

 if(isset($_POST['msg'])){


 $string = $_POST['msg'];
 $characters = strlen($string);
 $char= $characters-1;

 while($char>0)
 {
 $characters = $characters*($char);
 //echo("$char\n");
 //echo("........".$characters."\n");
 $char = ($char-1) ;

 }
 echo("There are $characters Different Combinations of the letters in  '$msg' ");
 echo("<br>Premutations: $characters ");
 $characters1 = $characters/6;
 echo("<br>3 letter combos: $characters1 ");
 }
}elseif($_POST['action'] =="Grade"){
       
      if(!empty($_POST['msg'])){
        $message = $_POST['msg'];
        $array = explode(",",$message);
         $container = array("test");
         $ii = 0;
         $loops = count($array);
         while($ii<$loops){
         $word = $array[$ii]; 
         if(!preg_match("/$word/i","$container")){
         $container[$ii] = $word;
         $ii++;
          }
         }
        }                
       } 

}
if(isset($container)){
$iii = 0;
$size = count($container);
while($iii>$size){
$echo = $container[$iii];
echo("$echo\n");
$iii++;
}
}
//echo($size);
?>
<form action="<?echo($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);?>" method='post'>
<table align='center' border='2' bordercolor='black'>
<tr><td>
<textarea cols='50' rows='9' name='msg'>
WORDS
</textarea>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<input type='radio' name='action' value='Grade'>Show Unique Strings<br>
<input type='radio' name = 'action' value='preM'>Show Premutation Info
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<input type='submit' value='GO!'>
</td></tr>
</table>
</form>


[dest]

while($iii>$size){
$echo = $container[$iii];
echo("$echo\n");
$iii++;
}

as long as $iii is greater than $size to begin with, it'll keep going and going and going

[sixthcrusifix]

while($iii>$size){
$echo = $container[$iii];
echo("$echo\n");
$iii++;
}

as long as $iii is greater than $size to begin with, it'll keep going and going and going

but . . . .$iii was smaller than $size, it always is because $iii is Zero and size is never less than 1. ? ? ? ?

Although you did find the error, it should say $iii<$size. Thanks... maybe I can fix it.