topic Re: for i = 1 HELP in Libraries & objects

for i = 1 HELP

JGoode — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:27:30 GMT

Is there a way to use this statement but modify it to use 1 less than "num_bays"???

		for i = 1 to num_bays
			if strstr(bay_type, 'Car') then gosub "Draw Bay"
			if strstr(bay_type, 'PTW') then gosub "Draw Bay"
			if strstr(bay_type, 'Cycle') then gosub "Draw Cycle"
			
			add A,0, 0	! Move to next space

Thanks

Re: for i = 1 HELP

Dave Seabury — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 17:32:04 GMT

FOR I = 1 TO num_bays - 1

David

Re: for i = 1 HELP

JGoode — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 12:46:13 GMT

Dave wrote:
FOR I = 1 TO num_bays - 1

David

I tried this but no luck. I just made a num_bays_2 parameter and made it equal num_bays - 1 and it worked correctly.

Re: for i = 1 HELP

Dave Seabury — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:17:07 GMT

J

I use this quite a bit, the only thing I can think of is
"num_bays" has to be declared before the script is
run ie it needs f to be a parameter or defined in the
master script

ds

Re: for i = 1 HELP

David Maudlin — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 12:54:26 GMT

JGoode:

Another option is to start at 2:

for i = 2 to num_bays

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Re: for i = 1 HELP

JaseBee — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 07:49:21 GMT

Not sure if this is relevant to your exact problem, but there doesn't seem to be any function for switching your "bay_type" from one "i" value to the next. If they are all supposed to be the same bay type then it might be better to do your string check outside the loop so it only needs to be calculated once.

Also the strstr() function returns the integer position of the string within the string, so it might be advantageous to add ">0" to your "if strstr() then" statement, ie. "if strstr(bay_type, "Cars") > 0 then" just to avoid any funny business...

Sorry, just procrastinating my own coding issues atm.

As for the problem, I've never had any issue with the "num_bays - 1" approach, not sure what could be at issue there.