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AK.E

Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:11 pm


Temporarily stopping a loop

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Just what the title says. Is there a way to stop a loop while you're doing something else?

An example of what I'm trying to achieve is below

procedure tiger
    put "Yes... the tiger is the greatest animal!"
end tiger

loop
    var animal : string
    get animal

    if animal = "tiger" then
        tiger
    end if
end loop


The problem with this is that the moment it says "Yes... the tiger is the greatest animal!" it automatically goes back to the beginning of the loop. Is there a way to stop the loop then start it again within the procedure. Or is there a better way of achieving what I'm trying to do?


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avsrule247

Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:20 pm


Re: Temporarily stopping a loop

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If you want to exit the loop completely you can just put "exit" within the if statement. However, if you want to ask the question again after you do something else then you would do:


loop


loop
    var animal : string
    get animal

    if animal = "tiger" then
        tiger
        exit
    end if
end loop

var name : string

get name

put "Your name is: ", name

end loop 


That will ask for the animal, temporally stop the loop, do something else (like ask for your name) then it will go back into the animal loop.


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Cervantes

Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:16 pm


RE:Temporarily stopping a loop

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Sure, you can pause execution. What you're really doing though, is executing a command that stalls. get is one of these, because it waits for user input. I think what you're looking for is Input.Pause, which will pause until a keystroke is pressed.


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AK.E

Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:48 pm


Re: Temporarily stopping a loop

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Thanks a lot you guys. It helped a lot.