Explain container iteration in the loop tutorial

As suggested by @pnkfelix in #12161, this extends the examples by a for-loop
 that iterates over a string as an example for container iteration.
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This code prints out a weird sequence of numbers and stops as soon as
it finds one that can be divided by five.
There is also a for-loop that can be used to iterate over a range of numbers
(or, more generally, anything implementing the `Iterator` trait):
There is also a for-loop that can be used to iterate over a range of numbers:
~~~~
for n in range(0, 5) {
@ -593,6 +592,21 @@ for n in range(0, 5) {
The snippet above prints integer numbers under 5 starting at 0.
More generally, a for loop works with anything implementing the `Iterator` trait.
Data structures can provide one or more methods that return iterators over
their contents. For example, strings support iteration over their contents in
various ways:
~~~~
let s = "Hello";
for c in s.chars() {
println!("{}", c);
}
~~~~
The snippet above prints the characters in "Hello" vertically, adding a new
line after each character.
# Data structures