Increment a variable

kingbp

Hello Is thee anyone out there that can give me an example on how to increment a variable in PBASIc, I tried doing this Turns + 1, to increment a variable i called turns but it didn't work does anyone know how to increment a variable the proper way?

Franklin

You should be reading the help files. there are manuals that have the syntax and conventions for programming that you will need to do any meaningful work. turns = turns+1

Microcontrolled

EDIT: I was wrong, my mind must have been in SPIN mode.....

PJAllen

First, "turns" has to be declared as a variable, here it is a byte:
turns var byte

You can initialise it to be 0, 1 or any other value. Here, it starts at 1:
turns = 1

Here's how you increment:
turns = turns + 1

Here's how you decrement:
turns = turns - 1

[ "Turns++" is not PBasic]

John Board

Just confirming,

The common way is either (but not in this case) turns++. This works in many languages, such as SPIN (I think), Java, C++ (I think) etc.

The next best thing is:

turns = turns + 1
turns = turns - 1

Bear in mind that Micros and other computery devices start counting from 0.

-John