I am trying to understand this JS code

Question

I found this exercise in Codecademy, I am struggling to understand it flow, especially the second for loop for(var j = i; j < (myName.length + i); j++). 
text = "Blah blah blah blah blah blah Eric \
blah blah blah Eric blah blah Eric blah blah \
blah blah blah blah blah Eric";
var myName = "Eric";
var hits = [];
// Look for "E" in the text
for(var i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
    if (text[i] === "E") {
        // If we find it, add characters up to
        // the length of my name to the array
        for(var j = i; j < (myName.length + i); j++) {
            hits.push(text[j]);
        }
    }
}

Daniel Newman · Answer

It is strange to find an answer about Codecademy code on Treehouse forum but if you talking about this:
http://external.codecademy.com/courses/javascript-beginner-en-XEDZA/0/1
Here is something about it:
http://external.codecademy.com/forum_questions/5490676fe39efe9f78001ce5
The second loop looks like this?
```javascript
var text, mName, hits;
text = 'LololoDan!';
myName = 'Dani';
hits = [];
for (i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
    if( text[i] == myName[0] ) {
        for ( j = 0; j < i + myName.length; j++ ) {
            hits.push(myName);
        }
    }
}
```
We make first loop just to find the first letter and if we find that first letter of the name is equal the letter i, we start internal cicle that is length = current letter and not bigger then name length + current index.

Mat Morris · Answer

If you could, please take a screenshot of the exercise, that will help with how you have your question setup.

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I am trying to understand this JS code

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Daniel Newman

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