# Quick question about ++ and --

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-question-about-and/175420
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [January 14, 2006, 5:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-question-about-and/175420 "2006-01-14T05:16:09Z")
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### Author: ![That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/13edae/32.png) [@That\_Guy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/That_Guy)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2006, 5:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-question-about-and/175420/1 "2006-01-14T05:16:09Z")

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how can you make it so that if you have something like

```auto
onClipEvent(enterframe) {
Variable++;
};

```

make is so that it only increases by one every other frame or every third frame instead of every frame?