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While and End While statements

I think Tasker is missing a while loop. I understand that there's the GoTo action, but it does not help with how easy it is to see where it begins and thus making it harder to edit.

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I want a small improvement in the goto command. Instead of a line number (which is fine), but also a relative line number.

goto -3: 3 lines back

goto +5: 5 lines forward.

The reason is because is very annoying when you edit a small piece of code (add or remove lines) outside the goto loop and break the loop because it points to another place.

Note: I don't want to replace the current behaviour. Just add as a new goto type

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That's why the label option in the Goto command exists :) That way you can keep the label in the action and always jump to it.

S

I never knew what the label function was for! After all these years, I'm still learning new things about this app!!! Thanks João!!

M

Something like:

while active
...

End while

So far my solution is

If active

....

goTo if

End if

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Are you maybe looking for the For - End For actions? :)

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M

A for loop is not always the best solution, sometimes you just don't know how many times you'll need the loop to run. I know that I can get the same behavior with a combination of if and go-to statements, but it feels unecesarily cumbersome.

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