| Author | Message | ||
     Brian wyles (Brianwyles) |
Hi Stefan I am having trouble getting the following loop to work.It keeps looping for the total No of loops figure is met.I am assuming that my problem is that I am trying to compare a hexadecimal value(variable) with a decimal one (count). Is there any way in which I can do this? Here is the section of script. read variable 2 assign count 1 { move "x" ifequal count variable exitloop else inc count }[500] Thanks Brian | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
First of all, an EndIf statement is missing, and I don't know what "x" is. The main difficulty, however, seems to be that "IfEqual" to compare so strictly, and at the binary level: "variable" consists of 16 bits. "count" initially consists of 8 bits (smallest integer type that can represent the number 1). If a 16-bit variable is compared to a 8-bit variable at the binary level, the result is always false (cf. documentation). Only if "variable" represents an integer number that is larger than 255, the comparison can return {true} when "count" has been extended to 16 bits to overcome the 8-bit integer barrier. Possible solution: insert the following two statements before "assign count 1" in order to make "count" initially a 16-bit variable, too: Move -2 Read count 2 |