while doesnt work in a call compile format?

[Tankbuster 1747]

I've been staring at this for a few days now without figuring out what is broken, so I thought I'd ask you guys.

I have a while statement that needs to use a flag with a dynamic variable name.

This works;

while { iris_active_0 } do {

and that's fine. But the script needs to work with a number of flags, namely iris_active_1, iris_active_2 etc etc

So i tried this,

call compile format ["while { iris_active_%1 } do {", _serial];

But it gives an error;

2014/06/22, 22:16:39 Error in expression <while {iris_active_0} do>
2014/06/22, 22:16:39   Error position: <>
2014/06/22, 22:16:39   Error Invalid number in expression

_serial is a scalar number, I checked in debug.

So, 2 questions, why isn't it working as expected and is there a better way of doing this?

Thanks in advance,

Tanky -Paul-

[terox 316]

while{call compile format ["Iris_Active_%1",_serial]}do

{

..............

};

[zooloo75 834]

You can also put the loop inside of a [] spawn {}

[Tankbuster 1747]

That's got it, Terox! Thanks mate. :)

[Larrow 2823]

You could also replace call compile with missionNamespace getVariable if your workking with global variables

while{missionNamespace getVariable (format ["Iris_Active_%1",_serial]) ] }do
{
..............
}; 

[Tankbuster 1747]

Yes, I was thinking about this method, Larrow. These variable are global, public, in fact and so I have been mulling over replacing much of my call compile format with setvariable. I was going to put an object in each of the locations that iris works on (it's Island Random Incident System BTW) and store the flag there using setvariable.