[PD] beginner's question - counter inside a counter?

[Thomas Mayer]

On 20.11.2010 14:51, 2bad4you at london.com wrote:
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> Hello,
>  
> I have built a counter that counts from 1 to 19 and then starts again from the beginning.
> 
> It reads the values from the array. However I would like it to stop after it reads the values three times. I was thinking of using another counter to do that. Any suggestions? Where should I put the other counter and how would it work?

You could count from 0 to 3*19, and then use [mod 19] and [+ 1] to get
the desired values from 0 to 19. When you read 3*19, stop it.

By the way: The "standard way" in Pd to do a counter is to use the
[f] X [+ 1] idiom.

cu Thomas
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