[Zope] Looping in DTML

[Tony McDonald]

At 10:12 pm -0700 16/8/99, craigv@jps.net wrote:
>Is there any way to do looping from within DTML? For example, I'd 
>like to execute a method a certain number of times using a counter. 
>Here's some pseudo-code to demonstrate:
>
><!--#while "i < total_count"-->
>  <!--#call some_method-->
>  <!--#call "REQUEST.set('i', i+1)"-->
><!--#/while-->

This loops total_count times and prints the number of the sequence

<dtml-in "_.range(total_count)">
<dtml-var sequence-item>
</dtml-in>

>If I can do looping, is there a way to break out of a loop?

not sure about that bit!

hth
tone out
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