# setInterval

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setinterval/172794>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [December 18, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setinterval/172794 "2005-12-18T01:15:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![ice987](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/779978/32.png) [@ice987](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ice987)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setinterval/172794/1 "2005-12-18T01:15:41Z")

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Hi

Trying something basic - just want to print out Hello five times with a delay using a for loop. Tried the code below but doesn’t work. What’s up?

function printout(){  
trace(“Hello”);}

for(var i=0;i\<5;i++){

id=setInterval(printout,30);  
//clearInterval(id);  
}