Question about for loops

Hello, i was wondering if it's possible to make the variables in for loops global, if yes how? if no what kind of loops offer global variables?

thx :D/>

In your code you could just have sth. like

for i = 1, 16 do
a = i --Your global variable
end

or just call your function (I think that's the point) with the for variable as an argument

no dude, i mean like i wanna use the "i" later on, after the end, for like x like x=i+2, 1, -1

Also please explain what you posted, cus without it explained i'm lost :S

Why would you need that?
If you define your loop for "i" you either say for i = 1, 12 do and you could just say for x = 14, 1, -1 or if you use variables like

for i = 1, yourtarget do

then it would look like this

for x = yourtarget+2, 1, -1

Else I wouldn't get the point of this

The think in my previous post was meant for function calls, so if you want to call your function with i, i would be local (only in the loop)

i need it for my program, to make it easier, now is it possible or not? or i gotta find another solution?

I don't know, if it's possible when I don't even know what you mean exactly. :P/>

You can't use a for loop for this. You can do dumb tricks like:

local i = 1
repeat
  --loop body
  i = i + 1
until i == 5

thanks for the answers, but i worked around it

I thought you could do (turns out I was wrong):

local i =0
for i=1,5 do
  print (i)
end
print ("I is now "..tostring(i))

Update: I tested my theory. As it turns out, this does not work. Following the end of the for loop, i returns to a value of 0,which is the value of the original local i. So, the for loop creates its own version of a local variable for purposes of the loop. When the loop ends, the local version created by the for loop falls out of scope. While it is possible to assign that variable to another, it is not possible to obtain the final value of the the for loop variable in this manner.

Lyqyd is correct (as usual).