how to generate a looping number?

joe88888 · Post by **joe88888** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:59 am

I want to generate a number in the middle of my script, let say let>this=5, and when after run throught that point one time, the number go down by 1, until this=1 and then go back to 5 again. thank you for any help!

label>firstline
.....
.....
let>this=5
?????
??????

if>this=5,page5
if>this=4,page4
if>this=3,page3
if>this=2,page2
if>this=1,page1
.......
......
label>page5
...
goto>firstline
....
label>page4
...
goto>firstline

label>page3
......

goto>firstline

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:10 am

You need to initialise this before the loop and decrement it inside:
Let>this=this-1

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Let>this=5
Label>start
  ..
  .. do something
  ..
  Let>this=this-1
Goto>start

Or better would be to use Repeat/Until

joe88888 · Post by **joe88888** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:17 pm

thank you, that works !