Script counting

[AestheticDeath]

OK speaking of the WizardFE here...

I know there is a %c function to count, and you can add to it etc...

How do I go about utilizing this in order to do something, say 60 times, then restart?

Do I need to do some sort of ECHO You have done this %c times, and then do a match on that to recognize it and then goto another place to restart the counter?

Will the script recognize its own echo in a matchwait thing?

Or is there some sort of other if/then goto thing?

[Bobmuhthol]

You can't match an echo. There is no FOR/NEXT, nor IF_THEN in Wizard, so you're kind of fucked. You could probably PsiNet chat it to yourself or something and match it from there.

[SolitareConfinement]

always ways around things....what exactly are you trying to do?

[Shaelun]

As others pointed out, there's absolutely no "if/then" kind of functionality, and a script won't match its own output.

There's only one possible way of doing this, to my knowledge, and I'm not at all sure it's suited to whatever it is you're trying to implement:


Entry:
counter set 0

label1:
label2:
label3:
label4:
label5:
label6:
label7:
label8:
label9:
counter add 1
goto doAction

doAction:
echo This is iteration %c
goto label%c

LabelError:
echo End of loop.
exit

It's a somewhat contrived, indirect way of "looping." It's extremely limited, but it's obviously better than nothing. The idea is that you have a label for every iteration, keep adding 1 to the counter variable, and eventually you'll run out of labels to jump to -- at which point this particular script would jump to "LabelError" and exit.

You can slightly expand the usefulness of this sort of thing by exploiting the save variable as a kind of additional variable, but that's as good as it gets.

If you've never seen labels stacked one right after the other like they are here, it works exactly like you might suspect: it jumps to the particular label, then executes from that line. Since a label declaration doesn't actually execute anything, it'll just keep "falling through" each label until it encounters a script line that actually does something (in this case incrementing the counter variable and jumping to the appropriate label).

That answer your question?

[BigWorm]

Slightly more concise version:


Entry:
counter set 0

doAction:
echo This is iteration %c
counter add 1
goto label%c

label10:
echo End of loop
exit

LabelError:
goto doAction

[Shaelun]

Slightly more concise version:

LOL... clever :)