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Steve GJ	Steve GJ posted 8 Years Ago Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 5, Visits: 18	Hi there, Started using Inquisit about a year ago, but I don't have a coding background, so I often get stuck with how I'm supposed to write something. I have 5 different trial types running within a block, but I want to have 1 of the 5 trials skipped/excluded from the block based on a pre-set value. So I have something like this: <values> /skiptrialnumber = 3 </values> Then I was trying to insert something into the trial like this <Trial 3> / skip = [trial.3 if (values.skiptrialitemnumber = 3)] </trial> But this doesn't seem to work. I'm guessing I'm just not writing this correctly, but any help would be great :) Thanks, -Steve
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Steve GJ	Steve GJ posted 8 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 5, Visits: 18	+x Steve GJ - Sunday, November 5, 2017 Hi there, Started using Inquisit about a year ago, but I don't have a coding background, so I often get stuck with how I'm supposed to write something. I have 5 different trial types running within a block, but I want to have 1 of the 5 trials skipped/excluded from the block based on a pre-set value. So I have something like this: <values> /skiptrialnumber = 3 </values> Then I was trying to insert something into the trial like this <Trial 3> / skip = [trial.3 if (values.skiptrialitemnumber = 3)] </trial> But this doesn't seem to work. I'm guessing I'm just not writing this correctly, but any help would be great :) Thanks, -Steve Problem solved. /skip [values.skiptrialnumber ==3] in case anyone was wondering. -Steve
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Dave	Dave posted 8 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 105K	+x Steve GJ - Sunday, November 5, 2017 +x Steve GJ - Sunday, November 5, 2017 Hi there, Started using Inquisit about a year ago, but I don't have a coding background, so I often get stuck with how I'm supposed to write something. I have 5 different trial types running within a block, but I want to have 1 of the 5 trials skipped/excluded from the block based on a pre-set value. So I have something like this: <values> /skiptrialnumber = 3 </values> Then I was trying to insert something into the trial like this <Trial 3> / skip = [trial.3 if (values.skiptrialitemnumber = 3)] </trial> But this doesn't seem to work. I'm guessing I'm just not writing this correctly, but any help would be great :) Thanks, -Steve Problem solved. /skip [values.skiptrialnumber ==3] in case anyone was wondering. -Steve To clarify / explain why this is so: "=" is the assignment operator; you use it to assign a value to a variable as in / ontrialbegin = [values.myvalue = 42] -> "The variable with the name 'myvalue' shall henceforth represent the numerical value 42." "==" is the logical comparison operator; you use it to check if a statement is true or false as in / ontrialbegin = [if (values.myvalue == 42) do stuff] -> "If the statement 'the variable 'myvalue' represents the numerical value 42" is true, do X, Y, and Z."
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Steve GJ	Steve GJ posted 8 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 5, Visits: 18	+x Dave - Monday, November 6, 2017 +x Steve GJ - Sunday, November 5, 2017 +x Steve GJ - Sunday, November 5, 2017 Hi there, Started using Inquisit about a year ago, but I don't have a coding background, so I often get stuck with how I'm supposed to write something. I have 5 different trial types running within a block, but I want to have 1 of the 5 trials skipped/excluded from the block based on a pre-set value. So I have something like this: <values> /skiptrialnumber = 3 </values> Then I was trying to insert something into the trial like this <Trial 3> / skip = [trial.3 if (values.skiptrialitemnumber = 3)] </trial> But this doesn't seem to work. I'm guessing I'm just not writing this correctly, but any help would be great :) Thanks, -Steve Problem solved. /skip [values.skiptrialnumber ==3] in case anyone was wondering. -Steve To clarify / explain why this is so: "=" is the assignment operator; you use it to assign a value to a variable as in / ontrialbegin = [values.myvalue = 42] -> "The variable with the name 'myvalue' shall henceforth represent the numerical value 42." "==" is the logical comparison operator; you use it to check if a statement is true or false as in / ontrialbegin = [if (values.myvalue == 42) do stuff] -> "If the statement 'the variable 'myvalue' represents the numerical value 42" is true, do X, Y, and Z." Thanks Dave -Steve
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