I generally do the same thing with nested repeats, but my comments are different:
On Apr 30, 2016, at 2:13 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Exiting an outer loop from within an inner takes >> contortions, but figuring out which end is attached to which if or repeat >> is time consuming. >> >> I know you've figured it out but for any noobs reading this and scratching > their heads here is how I do it - I'm sure the experts will show us > something cleaner and simpler. > > Firstly, as Alex said, when ever I type in a repeat, if, or switch I use > comments to tag the beginning, middle and end so I spend less time lost in > my scripts - I still get lost ;-( > > I then just use 'tExitCheck' a numerical value to test to see which level > to exit out to; 0 = exit out of all repeat loops. In the message box: put 0 into tCounter repeat with a = 1 to 10 repeat with b = 1 to 10 repeat with c = 1 to 10 repeat with d = 1 to 10 repeat with e = 1 to 10 add 1 to tCounter -- do stuff with variables here end repeat -- e = 1 to 10 -- more processing end repeat -- d = 1 to 10 -- more processing end repeat -- c = 1 to 10 -- more processing end repeat -- b = 1 to 10 -- more processing end repeat -- a = 1 to 10 -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode