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Really stupid question about conditional operators in 'for' cycle

  • #1
  • First Post: Mar 3, 2012 9:54am Mar 3, 2012 9:54am
What's the reason that it doesn't work? I always mess it up and it can't get out of the cycle, is that like coding 101 that you can't put if-else conditional operators in a cycle or am I doing something wrong?
  • #2
  • Mar 4, 2012 1:51am Mar 4, 2012 1:51am
Seeing an example of your problem-code would help greatly.
  • #3
  • Mar 4, 2012 9:40am Mar 4, 2012 9:40am
Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure what the exact mistake was (I should've written down what it was...). I think it had either something to do with not using continue or not redefining an external int. Either way I fixed it myself, I do think alot of it is unneccisary though.
Inserted Code
   for (cnt=2; cnt<stopcandle; cnt++)
     {
      if (iClose(pair,chart,cnt) > iOpen(pair,chart,cnt) ) {bull = bull+1; continue;}
      else if (iClose(pair,chart,cnt) < iOpen(pair,chart,cnt) ) {bear = bear+1; continue;}
     }
If I think logically using continue here is unneccisary (although there's no point in continueing if the first condition returns true). I think stopcandle was a global/external value at first and once I redefined that before running the loop it was fixed.
  • #4
  • Last Post: Mar 4, 2012 1:13pm Mar 4, 2012 1:13pm
this should work equally as well then.



Inserted Code
    for( cnt = 2; cnt < stopcandle; cnt ++ ) {
        if( iClose( pair, chart, cnt ) > iOpen( pair, chart, cnt ))
            bull = bull + 1;
        else if( iClose( pair, chart, cnt) < iOpen( pair, chart, cnt ))
            bear = bear + 1;
     }



Quoting Pipsgeek
Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure what the exact mistake was (I should've written down what it was...). I think it had either something to do with not using continue or not redefining an external int. Either way I fixed it myself, I do think alot of it is unneccisary though.
Inserted Code
   for (cnt=2; cnt<stopcandle; cnt++)
     {
      if (iClose(pair,chart,cnt) > iOpen(pair,chart,cnt) ) {bull = bull+1; continue;}
      else if (iClose(pair,chart,cnt) < iOpen(pair,chart,cnt) ) {bear = bear+1; continue;}
     }
If I think logically using...
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