diff --git a/src/strbuf.c b/src/strbuf.c
index f0ca42f..fc3ac9f 100644
--- a/src/strbuf.c
+++ b/src/strbuf.c
@@ -161,20 +161,19 @@ void strbuf_rev(strbuf_t *s) {
 
 void strbuf_squeeze(strbuf_t *s, char ch) {
 
-    size_t p;
+    size_t p, np, of;
 
     for(p=s->len; p; p--) {
 
         if (s->buf[p-1] != ch)
             continue;
 
-        size_t np = p, of = 0;
-        
-        for(; np-1 && s->buf[np-2] == ch; np--)
+        np = p;
+
+        for(of = 0; np-1 && s->buf[np-2] == ch; np--)
             of++;
 
         if (of) {
-            
             p = np;
             for(s->len -= of; np <= s->len; np++)
                 s->buf[np] = s->buf[np + of];