mkForDo ( LoopVariable ; StartValueNum ; EndValueNum ; Function )
Implements a For...Do loop to run a function a fixed number of times with an increasing counter
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"counter" ;
3 ;
6 ;
"counter & \"^2+1 = \" & counter * counter + 1 & \" ... \" "
)
Function definition: (Copy & paste into FileMaker's Edit Custom Function window)
This function implements the equivalent of a For...Do loop in FileMaker.
It essentially works like Evaluate(), except it allows you to specify a variable name, and a start value and end value, and it re-Evaluates the expression once for each value of the variable. It does not insert newlines between successive evaluations, it simply concatenates them.
For instance, if you had a table "Data" with fields "Name" and City, and as follows...
Name, City:
"Alice", "Amsterdam"
"Bob", "Boston",
"Carol", "Cleveland"
then
mkForDo (
"COUNTER" ;
1 ;
count(data::Name) ;
"\"COUNTER. The person named \"&getNthRecord(data::Name,COUNTER)&\" lives in \"& getNthRecord(data::city,COUNTER)*\". \"")
)
Would produce the output:
"1. the person named Alice lives in Amsterdam. 2. the person named Bob lives in Boston. 3. the person named Carol lives in Cleveland."
You must be sure to use the same capitalization in the LoopVariable parameter and the Function parameter. Using capitalized "Counter" in the LoopVariable would not recognize the lower-cased string "counter" as the variable in the Function parameter.
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