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Greetings,

I'm trying to write a simple scheduler to run a program every "5 + 1" minutes, for example on minutes during the hour of "01, 06, 11, 16, 21, 26, 31, 36, 41, 46, 51, 56". I know it requires a loop however I do not know the proper command syntax to set the minutes correctly. Any help appreciated.

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While 1
    If (StringRight(@MIN, 1) = 1) Or (StringRight(@MIN, 1) = 6) Then ;if current minute ends in 1 or 6
        ;run your program here
    EndIf
    Sleep(60000) ;pause for 60 seconds - you may want to change this, but if the program execution does not take at least a minute then it will run twice
WEnd

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While 1
    If (StringRight(@MIN, 1) = 1) Or (StringRight(@MIN, 1) = 6) Then ;if current minute ends in 1 or 6
        ;run your program here
    EndIf
    Sleep(60000) ;pause for 60 seconds - you may want to change this, but if the program execution does not take at least a minute then it will run twice
WEnd
Interesting. And a lot more elegant than I would have thought about doing it.
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Interesting. And a lot more elegant than I would have thought about doing it.

You could simplify it even more using StringRegExp().

While 1
    If StringRegExp(@MIN, "[16]") = 1 Then ;if current minute ends in 1 or 6
        ;run your program here
    EndIf
    Sleep(60000) ;pause for 60 seconds - you may want to change this, but if the program execution does not take at least a minute then it will run twice
WEnd

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Something like this should also work= (untested)

While 1
    If StringIsDigit((@MIN-1)/5) = 1 Then;if current minute ends in 1 or 6
      ;run your program here
    EndIf
    Sleep(60000);pause for 60 seconds - you may want to change this, but if the program execution does not take at least a minute then it will run twice
WEnd
Edited by AdmiralAlkex
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Thanks for the help everybody! One final question, the application will run less than a minute, I thought of adding a "control" variable to prevent the script from running more than once but I'm getting an error, can somebody explain the problem with this? (it doesn't like the "Return" part...)

Dim $Control = 0

if($Control == 1) Then Return

EndIf

While 1

If (StringRight(@MIN, 1) = 1) Or (StringRight(@MIN, 1) = 6) Then ;if current minute ends in 1 or 6

;run your program here

Run("C:\SegFiles\Process.exe", "", @SW_MAXIMIZE)

$Control = 1

EndIf

Sleep(60000) ;pause for 60 seconds - you may want to change this, but if the program execution does not take at least a minute then it will run twice

WEnd

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1. return is used from inside a UDF

2. it is written either...

If ($Control == 1) Then Return ; with no "EndIf"

or.....

If ($Control == 1) Then

; do something

Return

EndIf

how about this, it only sleeps for 1 min when the prog is ran?

While 1
    If (StringRight(@MIN, 1) = 1) Or (StringRight(@MIN, 1) = 6) Then ;if current minute ends in 1 or 6
        ;run your program here
        Run("C:\SegFiles\Process.exe", "", @SW_MAXIMIZE)
        Sleep(60000)
    EndIf
    Sleep(10)
WEnd

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