Forums Scripts & Popups help with a specific while loop

hi im tryin to do a loop where itll check all instances of

%thinga $+ %x are checked for $nick - else inc %x and redo it

then the same for %thingb

i was thinkin of doing something like this

var %z = 1
while (($(%thinga $+ %x),2) && $nick isin ( $(%thinga $+ %x),2)) { actions to do if found | inc %x }
else { inc %x}

but what i found was it wuz really gonna b an endless loop kinda thing

The number of times you want this to happen

-genius_at_work

you guys mean $($+(%,thinga,%x),2)

btw just in case %thinga* vars arent always sequential like you may not necessarily have 1,2,3 in case some are unset before others, you should loop with $var

prob with that script is, %xx can change, like there might only b 2 %thinga's (so %thinga1 and %thinga2) or there might be 25...so i dont really think i can set the %xx value to a number

would something like this work

var %xx
while $(%thinga $+ %xx,2) { inc %xx }

thensortof move to the new loop by the other while so

var %x 1
while ($(%thinga $+ %x,2) && (%x <= %xx ) { if ($nick isin $(%thinga $+ %x,2)) { commands here | inc %x }
else { inc %x }

:S or osmething like that lol

did you try mine?

while $(%thinga $+ %xx,2) { inc %xx }

Ignoring everything else your construction of this is faulty

currently your trying to join the contents of %thinga with the contents of %xx, you then evaluate that twice (normally does nothing more than evaluates it once, since %thinga is normally $null)

what your wanting to do is creat a variable called %thinga%xx the italic section being the contents of %xx

while $($+(%,thinga,%xx),2) { inc %xx }

you must seperate the % from thinga to stop it being evaluated to its contents


PS: on quick observation JayTea's script seems a simple and cleaner method to go.

hmmm......

a simple while loop is like this

var %thinga = 1
while (%thinga <= 10) {
echo %thinga
inc %thinga
}

depending on if the variable will inc (increase) or dec (decrease) it really depends on what your trying to do.

Hes trying to loop through dynamicly named variables %thinganumber checking if $nick is in the variable contents, so setting %thinga to anything isnt what hes after.