I ran into behavior where if I'm doing a FOR EACH on a list, and then nesting in another FOR EACH on the same list, the internal/nested FOR EACH apparently moves the "pointer" or position to the end of the list for BOTH loops, such that the larger FOR EACH never does anything but the first element!
FUNCTION findPathAdjs(rm, pathList) ' trig by prepPathLists(1)
'FOR EACH vertex IN pathList ' Can't use FOR EACH here since we need to look through this same list below and that moves the "pointer" through to the end of of the list!
FOR v = 0 TO pathList.Count() -1
vertex = pathList[v]
y = vertex.y
x = vertex.x
? "findPathAdjs() rm" rm ", y" y ", x" x
adj = [] ' List of adjacent non-blocked squares
adjCand = [ [y-1, x], [y, x+1], [y+1, x], [y, x-1] ] ' N, E, S, W
FOR adjDir = 0 TO 3
coords = adjCand[adjDir]
y2 = coords[ 0]
x2 = coords[ 1]
IF NOT offGridCheck(y2, x2)
adjVertex = y2.ToStr() + "x" + x2.ToStr()
? "findPathAdjs() checking for " adjVertex " in rm" rm " from y" y ", x" x
FOR EACH vertexB IN pathList ' I can use FOR EACH here without issue
IF vertexB.vtxNm = adjVertex ' If the adjacent vertex name is on the non-blocked square list for the room...
adj.Push(adjVertex) ' Add it to the short list for adj squares
EXIT FOR ' If we found a match, no need to look further
END IF
END FOR
END IF
END FOR
? "findPathAdjs() rm" rm ", y" y ", x" x ", adj.Count()" adj.Count()
vertex.adj = adj ' assign the built array to the vertex as key "adj"
END FOR
RETURN pathList
END FUNCTION
My list is pathList, and when I tried using FOR EACH in that top line it would only do one element. Now that I'm using actual numbers, it gets them all.
Is this normal to programming and something that just reveals my general ignorance, or is this some sort of shortcoming/weakness of BrightScript?
