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Hi, I need help...

I have a variable declared outside of my function. However, it reads this variable from inside the function but in that function or any other function it won't change it. I have a boolean...

allow = true;

function blahBlah()
{
...stuff
if (stuff) { if (allow = true) { stuff } else { stuff } }
}

function otherStuff()
{
allow = false;
}

So when I do blahBlah() it works perfectly, When I change it however to false using otherStuff, and then use blahBlah, it still thinks that allow is true. Which it shouldn't be..

try "var allow = true"

and also, in your if statement, it should be == and not = otherwise it will always return true.

I already have var in front.

Ha, I'm such an idiot. I should have == not =. I always make those mistakes...

As said by roflmao456, if you use the EQUAL (=) operator that will return always true as you are going to assign a value to the var.

For comparing 2 vars you should use the IS_EQUAL operator (==).

code:

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var foo = true;  //Declare a variable statement

if(foo == true){ //or simply if(foo)...
//Your code
}

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quote:

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I already have var in front.

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That doesn't matter.

Yes. I hate making these mistakes. Heh, Thanks for pointing it out though. Works perfectly.

= is the variable assignment operator
== checks equality of one to the other