loops

[robertpatterson]

I did a loop bigger than 256 it did not warn me It will maf function Not a big deal But something should have poped up warning me.

It seems to loop forever when that is done.

[SteveM]

Hi Robert,

This is a known bug that has been passed to our programmers to look at. For some reason the compiler is always using just a single byte for the loop index, even if you specify a value that doesn't fit into a byte - so the counter just keeps wrapping around to zero and never reaches the target.
The simplest work-around is to use a "while" loop, and define your own index counter, which you can then specify as an Integer or Long variable type to cope with the larger loop values. For example...

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Apologies for the inconvenience - we'll get that fixed as soon as we can.

Best regards,
Steve.

[robertpatterson]

I just used a loop inside a loop to get it done in the end.