A simple if stmt

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I have a flash program that needs to play and pause when the button is clicked, right now I have this code


  var status;
  status = stop
  
  on (release) 
  {


	if (status == stop)
	{
		play();
		status = play;
	}
	if (status == play)
	{
		stop();
		status = stop;
	}
  }

this is of course is not right. my var is in the wrong place but i dont want to declair on every “on (release)”

any help would be great.