Looping if statement, what am I doing wrong?

[cowboy713]

Hello everyone. I just started working with Autoit about a week ago and I only have a a minor amount of coding experience but so far I think it's coming along pretty well. Anyway I'm trying to write a loop and within it there will be an if statement called but I can't seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong. Currently whenever I run it it doesn't seem to ever get past the first If condition.

Local $i = 0
While $i<20
If $i == 2 or 5 or 11 or 16 Then
_Func1()
Else
_Func2()
$i= $i + 1
EndIf
WEnd

I had also tried using a do until and just setting it to Until $i==20 but that was unsuccessful as well. Any idea where I'm messing this up?

[JohnOne]

If $i = 2 or $i = 5 or $i = 11 or $i = 16 Then

[water]

Your code shouldn't ever pass the syntax check because your if statement is wrong.You need to dig into the AutoIt language before writing scripts. Check the Wiki for some very good tutorials.

I think what you need is something liek this:

Local $i = 0
While $i < 20
    If $i = 2 Or $i = 5 Or $i = 11 Or $i = 16 Then
        _Func1()
    Else
        _Func2()
    EndIf
    $i = $i + 1
WEnd

[Kidney]

If $i = 2 or $i = 5 or $i = 11 or $i = 16 Then

This.

Also, a short hand to adding an integer to a variable and setting it equal to itself looks like this:

$i += 1

[JohnOne]

I'd probably do it something like this...

Local $i = 0
While $i < 20
Switch $i
  Case 2, 5, 11, 16
   _Func1()
  Case Else
   _Func2()
EndSwitch
$i = $i + 1
WEnd

Edited June 8, 2012 by JohnOne

[cowboy713]

Figured it would be a simple mistake I was making >.<

Since every seems to be quite active hopefully you could answer one other quite question. I was reading through the different Autoit language references for example of what I was trying to do. With something like

Local $i = 0
While $i <= 10
    MsgBox(0, "Value of $i is:", $i)
    $i = $i + 1
WEnd

for example, what else would I need to put into SciTE to be able to run and test that? Originally I was trying to test my previous code using just MsgBoxes instead of calling the functions to make everything simpler. But the code I just posted I can't seem to run a quick test. Would I need to add in an active function window or a function for the MsgBoxes ?

Thanks for the quite replies, you guys are on the ball considering how early it still is lol.

Edit: Had been trying F5, turned out the reason it wasn't working was since I hadn't bothered to save it since it was just a quick test... Oh man. Thanks for the help again though guys.

Edited June 8, 2012 by cowboy713

[water]

... what else would I need to put into SciTE to be able to run and test that? ...

Press F5 in SciTE?

[JohnOne]

ConsoleWrite("Value of $i is:" & $i & @LF)