How to set up a counter

[jcamer...@gmail.com]

I need to use a counter, either to count time steps since an event has happened or to count the number of times an event has happened, and I can't figure out how to set one up. I'd also like to pass a counter to a function(similar to python or other more general coding languages).

[Charles Lassiter]

From what you've written, a simple solution would be to add a global variable and then set it to add one whenever the event happens.

globals [counter]

to setup

...

set counter 0

...

end

to do-the-thing

...

event-you-want-to-count

set counter counter + 1

end

It'll look different depending on what you're trying to count, but that's the basic idea. If you want to use it in a function, plug 'counter' into it. If you don't want to keep track of the counts by means of a variable you could write a reporter, but you'd need to give some more detail for suggestions (at least from me).

On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 11:39 AM <jcamer...@gmail.com> wrote:

I need to use a counter, either to count time steps since an event has happened or to count the number of times an event has happened, and I can't figure out how to set one up. I'd also like to pass a counter to a function(similar to python or other more general coding languages).

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