NEXT

NEXT is used in a FOR...NEXT counter loop to progress through the loop count.

Syntax

FOR counterVariable = startValue TO stopValue [STEP increment] {code} ⋮ NEXT [counterVariable]

Description

• NEXT is required in a FOR loop or a ERROR Codes will occur.
• The FOR variable name is not required after NEXT.
• NEXT can be grouped with other NEXTs in nested FOR loops using colons like NEXT: NEXT
• NEXT can also end more than one nested FOR...NEXT loop using comma separated variables like NEXT j, i
• NEXT increases the FOR loop count, so after the loop is over the counterVariable's value will be stopValue + 1 (or stopValue + increment).
• NEXT is also used with the RESUME statement.

Example(s)

Finding the FOR variable value AFTER a simple counter loop to 10.

FOR i = 1 TO 10
  PRINT i;
NEXT i

PRINT "AFTER the LOOP, NEXT makes the value of i ="; i 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 AFTER the LOOP, NEXT makes the value of i = 11

Result: The last value of i = 11 although FOR only looped 10 times. Only use the count values while inside of the loop or compensate for this behavior in your code.

See Also

• FOR...NEXT
• DO...LOOP
• RESUME