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incr

Description

Increment the value of an integer.

Function prototype

int64 incr <varref:Var>

Arguments

Name Type Comment
Var varref A reference to the integer variable to be incremented.

Return value

The value of Var after it was incremented by 1.

Example

// create a new integer 'i', and set it to zero
int i
set i 0

// increment the value of 'i' four times, and echo to log 
echo <zs:incr i>
echo <zs:incr i>
echo <zs:incr i>
echo <zs:incr i>

… the output of which is written to the event log by echo as:

1
2
3
4

Comments

Supported types

The following variable types of the argument Var are supported by incr:

See also