FOR loop causing NaN or Undefined

[aaronmurray]

Here's the code:

on (press) {
for (var i = 0; i<=4; i++) {
k = random(3);
pp = new Array();
for (var j = 0; j<=k; j++) {
pp[j] = dofunction();
}
this["text"+i] = pp.join(" / ");
trace("returned text "+i+" = "+this["text"+i]);
_global.dofunction = function() {
return "some text";
};
}
}


Here's the output:

returned text 0 = undefined / undefined / undefined
returned text 1 = some text / some text / some text
returned text 2 = some text / some text
returned text 3 = some text / some text / some text
returned text 4 = some text / some text


Why is the first return an Undefined? Sometimes (in different versions of the script) it returns NaN for the first run through but then is fine. I have tried to call "i" as a number intially : i = Number(i); and I have tried to incriment it at the start of the script : i++; but nothing seems to help.
Thanks in advance crew!

Aaron

[token 3]

you have to define your function first, the way your code is set up, the first loop executes then the function is defined, so it is available for the second loop to call it

code:

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_global.dofunction = function() {

	return "some text";

};



for (var i = 0; i<=4; i++) {

	k = random(3);

	pp = new Array();

	for (var j = 0; j<=k; j++) {

		pp[j] = dofunction()

	}

	this["text"+i] = pp.join(" / ");

	trace("returned text "+i+" = "+this["text"+i]);

}

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