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From: "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com>
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Subject: Re: comma placement problem
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 14:48:27 -0500
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On Mon, 20 May 2013 14:32:02 -0400, richard wrote:
> This does exactly what I want except that when 1969 is reached, the commas
> don't get placed where I want them.
> I need the commas on every line except for the last line.
> which is why I put the conditional just before the \n.
>
>
>
>
>
> $year=1960;
> $number=1;
> $number=(int)$number;
> $year=(int)$year;
>
>
> while ($year<=1969):
>
....
> if ($year<1969 and $number<=10){echo ",";}
> echo "\n";
> $number++;
> endwhile;

Off-by-one problems usually stem from mismatching "<" and "<=".
Experiment there.

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