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Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:08 am**

Ok, im going to explain this best i can -

THE SCENARIO

Lets say i have 5 small rectangular fields on my stack card.

I create a code, which enables me to put data on each of the fields one by one.

It asks the question "what would you like in this field" and i will type it in.

I get to field 2 out of 5. I then cancel it.

Now, i want to be able to click the execute button again, but start from field 3, instead of all the way to field 1.

Now, i use this command in a repeat code -

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if "field" is not empty then (go back to repeat loop)

the stuff in brackets is the part i don't know... how do i make a repeat loop restart, mid point in the actual repeat script.

I hope you undestand what im trying to say.

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:53 am**

Dear Taz,

Probably, this is what you want:

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repeat with x = 1 to 5
  if fld x is not empty then exit repeat
end repeat
repeat with y = x to 5
  -- do your stuff here
end repeat

Best,

Mark

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:58 pm**

nope, what that code did was, go through the 5 fields, if it's not empty, it just exits the script.

So say if field 1 has something in it, then instead of skipping it and going to field 2, it jus exits the repeat.

Do you understand what im trying to say

I want it to be able to go down the fields, and know that if the field has something in it, then it must skip to the next field, and if there's nothing in the field, i want it to ask me the question -

"what would u like to input in this field".

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:10 pm**

Taz,

Did you replace "do you stuff" with something else?

Mark

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:43 pm**

in the do ur stuff part, i placed the actual script there.

The script basically cycles through the fields, and asks me a question, in which i input data, and it inputs it into the field.

so it's like -

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repeat counter = 1 to 5
ask "question here" 
put it into "field"

Now, if the field is not empty, i want it to stop, and skip straight to the next field. If that field is not empty, then i want it to skip again, until it finds an empty field and then asks me to input data into it.

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:14 pm**

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repeat with counter = 1 to 5
  if field counter = "" then
    ask "question here"
    put it into field counter
  end if
end repeat

untested

Posted: **Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:52 pm**

K let me try to explain in another way.

I want to be able to know how to put a "if" or any command, that i could place in the MIDDLE of a repeat loop, to make the repeat loop go from the beginning, instead of carrying on through the script.

Posted: **Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:57 pm**

Hi Taz,

now I am getting confused. Could you please try to explain exactly what you want to do? (Using bold does not really help me understand your question)

I understood you wanted to examine if a field already has been filled in and if so, continue with the next empty field. Both Marks and BjÃ¶rnkes Script will let you do just that.

However, if you want to go back to the start of the loop, your repeat construct needs to look a bit differently:

on mouseUp
local i
put 1 into i
repeat until i=5
if fld i is not empty then
-- go back to start
put 0 into i
end if
add 1 to i
end repeat
end mouseUp

However, I'm sure what you want is Marks or BjÃ¶rnkes Script. Have you actually tried them?

All the best,

Malte

[edit]Fixed typo.[/edit].

Posted: **Thu Aug 23, 2007 6:54 pm**

Hi Taz,

Would 'next repeat' do the trick? It will skip the rest of the repeat statements and go straighyt back top the beginning - like the 'continue' command in Java.

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on mouseUp
  repeat for each word tWord in field "foobar"
    if tWord is "SKIPTHIS" then next repeat
    -- do whatever you like for other words
    put upper(tWord) & return after field "snafu"
  end repeat
end mouseUp

If you were to execute the above when field "foobar" contains the following:

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If only I could SKIPTHIS - then things would be fine

Then the field "snafu" would contain:

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If
only
I
could
-
then
things
would
be
fine

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

Posted: **Fri Aug 24, 2007 6:43 pm**

Thank you very VERY much Janschenkel, that is exactly what i was looking for and wanted.

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next repeat

.

Still much appreciation to maltem, BvG, Mark for all trying to help me.

Sorry for making it sound so complicated :S

Thanks once again.

Posted: **Thu May 01, 2008 8:20 pm**

Taz wrote:Thank you very VERY much Janschenkel, that is exactly what i was looking for and wanted.
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next repeat
.

Still much appreciation to maltem, BvG, Mark for all trying to help me.

Sorry for making it sound so complicated :S

Thanks once again.

Wouldn't it be great if we could make a video of the behaviour that we hope for: post it on Google Collaborator and link to the forum ?

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