Thanks John I just had figured out that the way to do it was to pass the values as arguments in the recursion.
Bob On Jan 26, 2012, at 12:34 PM, John Craig wrote: > Hi, Bob. Here's one way of doing it. In the first call, pIndex is empty, so > some initialization is performed. The parameters are all passed with each > recursive call, but pSame is always the same value. > > HTH > > > :) > > > > on mouseUp > test "12345", 1, 99 > end mouseUp > > > command test pData, pChange, pSame, pIndex > if pIndex is not an integer then > put 1 into tpIndex > put "first time" & LF into msg > end if > > put char pIndex of pData after pData > put pIndex ^ 2 into pChange > add 1 to pIndex > > put pData & ", " & pChange & ", " & pSame & ", " & pIndex & LF after msg > > if length(pData) < 10 then > test pData, pChange, pSame, pIndex > end if > end test > > > On 26/01/2012 20:04, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> Hi all. This is my first foray into recursive functions. There are two >> variables I would like to be persistent for as long as the script is >> running, but I want them to be empty the first time I call the recursive >> function. I have tried declaring the variables as local, but each time the >> function calls itself, the variables are wiped as though a new set is made. >> If I declare them as global, then of course the value persists even after >> the last recursion terminates. The function has no idea if it is the first >> time through or one of the iterations. Any idea how to get around this? >> >> Bob >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
