Repeat for each loop assistance, please.

yoy yoy at comcast.net
Sun Aug 3 00:17:01 EDT 2003


Whoa!

Scott, here I thought everybody was in bed but me.

Many thanks!

Andy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Rossi" <scott at tactilemedia.com>
To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: Repeat for each loop assistance, please.


> Recently, yoy wrote:
>
> > repeat for each line gameLine in fld "gamelist"
> >
> > I need to obtain the line number for the current iteration. I'm error
> > checking for the number of items in gameLine and if it isn't equal to 5,
I
> > want to raise an answer dialog and stop the script, then hilight that
line
> > in fld "gameList".
> >
> > The other problem is that the variable might be 6 with the first 5 items
> > isolated and the 6th item examined under different circumstances, ala
> > checking a lotto game with or without a bonus ball number.
> >
> > It has only been two days of my trial.
> >
> > What can I query to get the iteration number of this loop?
>
>
> Sounds like you want to use a counter to get the iteration.
>
> put 1 into N
> repeat for each line L in fld "gameList"
>   put number of items of L into T
>   if T <> 5 then
>     answer "Incorrect number of items." titled "Error"
>     set the hilitedLines of fld gameList to N
>     exit to top
>   end if
>   # do other stuff here
>   add 1 to N
> end repeat
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
>
> Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
> Email: scott at tactilemedia.com
> Web: www.tactilemedia.com
>
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