incrementing on counting, how to use the for statement and to count how many times a line or part of code runs

for i = 1, 10 do
  print(i .. "_")
end
-- WIll print the number of i and a _ each time (10 times)
-- for 'for' statements you can have a third number
-- which is used for the step, not including it defaults
-- the step to one
so the above will be the same as this:
for i = 1, 10, 1 do
  print(i .. "_")
end
-- You can go increments of more than 2 by doing this
for i = 1, 10, 3 do -- will go up every 3
  print(i)
end
-- Output: 1. 4. 7, 10
-- Negative steps
for i = 10, 1, -1 do -- If the first number is larger than the second number, I think you do not have to put -1

rednet.open(modemside)
local count=0
while true do --infinite loop
  print(count) --so you can see how high it has counted
  rednet.receive()
  count=count+1 --increment
end

KaoS, on 27 November 2012 - 10:37 AM said:

rednet.open("side")
local count=0
while true do --infinite loop
  print(count) --so you can see how high it has counted
  senderID, msg = rednet.receive()
  count = count + 1 --increment
end

local count,senderID,msg = {0,0,0,0} --however many counts you need
rednet.open("side")
while true do --infinite loop
    for i = 1,4 do print(count[i]) end --so you can see how high it has counted
    senderID, msg = rednet.receive()
    if conditionalstatement then
        --somehow extract an index n
        count[n] = count[n] + 1 --increment
    end
end