# If variable=variable simple problem!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/if-variable-variable-simple-problem/56278
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 2, 2004, 7:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/if-variable-variable-simple-problem/56278 "2004-07-02T07:02:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@lplover2k2](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lplover2k2)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2004, 7:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/if-variable-variable-simple-problem/56278/1 "2004-07-02T07:02:47Z")
Ok i’m having this problem;i have tried a lot of times to try to find what is wrong but could not;it looks pretty simple though but i’m a newbie;
here is the situation:
I have 2 buttons:
-Next page
-Previous page
a dynamic text box where i load an external text;it is called “contents”(the var).
my “Previous page” button works fine while i’m having problem with my “next page” button.
I use loadVariablesNum("…/texts/"+pagenum+".txt", 0);
So that when i press on
next page" button;the pagenum is incremented and it loads 1.txt , 2.txt ,etc…(where in each text; “contents” variable is loaded).
I also use a variable(lastpage) so that to stop the “next page” button to go further than the last page.
I load the lastpage variable value from an external text too.
here is the code the “next page” button:
on (release) {
if (pagenum=lastpage) {
break;
} else {
pagenum = pagenum+1;
loadVariablesNum("…/texts/"+pagenum+".txt", 0);
}
}
The “next page” button doesn’t stop when pagenum=lastpage.
Any idea why? thanks in advance
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/if-variable-variable-simple-problem/56278/2 "2004-07-15T14:42:04Z")
> [@lplover2k2](#):
>
> here they are with the texts
>
> [http://www.geocities.com/lplover2k2/project.zip](http://www.geocities.com/lplover2k2/project.zip)
>
> copy and paste in address bar if it does not work
anyone can help??? please
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2004, 8:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/if-variable-variable-simple-problem/56278/3 "2004-07-16T08:35:42Z")
```auto
else if(condition){action}
as opposed to else{condition;action}
```
and i wrote a mini tut on IF statements here: [http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60750&highlight=if+statements](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60750&highlight=if+statements)
why not do a search?
Prophet.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/if-variable-variable-simple-problem/56278/4 "2004-07-17T17:54:55Z")
thanks i have reada you tutorial but still don’t know why my code doesn’t work ☹