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why wont my variable increase?

hi I have the following script which needs to increase the nextpage variable from 2 to 10. However the script never seems to increase and the scrape session runs continously.

//Create the loop to go from 2 to 10.
NEXTPAGE.clear();
for (int i=2; i<=10; i++)
{
// Make the current number available to the session.
session.setVariable("NEXTPAGE", String.valueOf(i));

// This line will just write an output to the log, but is otherwise unneeded.
session.log(" ***Starting PAGE COUNT " + session.getVariable("NEXTPAGE");

// Finally scrape the file for this CATID.
session.scrapeFile("collect video");
}

it may be that I set the nextpage variable on initially running the scrape to 0 and it appears that I cant reset this?

Or is it that because the script calls a scrapable file that call another scrapeable file before going back to the script?

Please Help!

thanks

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why wont my variable increase?

My apologies about the link not translating right. I've fixed it for our future readers.

[url]http://www.screen-scraper.com/xfer/collect-video-test_Scraping-Session.zip[/url]

-Scott

  • By swilsonmc at 07/26/2007 - 10:00
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why wont my variable increase?

tis ok I have managed to download it - thanks again!

  • By kerrid at 07/26/2007 - 05:55
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why wont my variable increase?

Hi Scott, thanks for your reply and feedback.

the link does not appear to work?

Kerri

  • By kerrid at 07/26/2007 - 05:53
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Re: why wont my variable increase?

kerrid,

For the most part it looks ok. I made these two modifications and it worked as expected for me.

Attempting to clear the NEXTPAGE variable is unnecessary since it gets set explicitly in the for loop.

[quote="kerrid"]
NEXTPAGE.clear();
for (int i=2; i<=10; i++)
[/quote]

You're missing a closing parenthesis in this log entry.

[quote="kerrid"]
session.log(" ***Starting PAGE COUNT " + session.getVariable("NEXTPAGE");
[/quote]

You can download the test session I created here.

[url]http://www.screen-scraper.com/xfer/collect-video-test_Scraping-Session.zip[/url]

Please let me know if you're still having issues.

Thanks,
Scott

  • By swilsonmc at 07/24/2007 - 16:39
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