# counting variable
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/counting-variable/7951
**Category:** Export
**Created:** [February 17, 2009, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/counting-variable/7951 "2009-02-17T12:26:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@goyschak](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/goyschak)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2009, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/counting-variable/7951/1 "2009-02-17T12:26:13Z")
First of all, thank you very much for this great program and this dicussion board.
I really do appreciate the amount of work put in here.
I started to code mtes and my own html page two weeks ago. I started with no knowledge about mte or html and have come a long way since. 😉
But now I'm stuck.
I would like to generate a html via a mte so that all the album covers are shown in a table, which is 5 columns wide. Therefore I put a counter ("zaehler") into the script, to break the table line () as soon as it reaches 5 [line A]. That is working so far. But after that, the counter should be set to 0 [line B], so it can start counting again beginning in the next loop. But as soon as i include line B into the code, the counter ("zaehler") never advances above 1. It just stays there.
Could anybody give me some advice, please?
> [@](#):
>
> ...
> $loop(%\_folderpath%)
>
> ...(html code) $puts(zaehler,$add($get(zaehler),1)) **$if($eql($get(zaehler),5),,) [line A)] $if($eql($get(zaehler),5),$puts(zaehler,0),) [line B]** $loop(%\_filename\_ext%)$loopend()$loopend() ...
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2009, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/counting-variable/7951/2 "2009-02-17T13:14:56Z")
> [@goyschak](#):
>
> First of all, thank you very much for this great program and this dicussion board.
> I really do appreciate the amount of work put in here.
>
> I started to code mtes and my own html page two weeks ago. I started with no knowledge about mte or html and have come a long way since. 😉
>
> But now I'm stuck.
> I would like to generate a html via a mte so that all the album covers are shown in a table, which is 5 columns wide. Therefore I put a counter ("zaehler") into the script, to break the table line () as soon as it reaches 5 [line A]. That is working so far. But after that, the counter should be set to 0 [line B], so it can start counting again beginning in the next loop. But as soon as i include line B into the code, the counter ("zaehler") never advances above 1. It just stays there.
>
> Could anybody give me some advice, please?
Two things:
1.
Maybe a closing round bracket is too much.
$if($eql($get(zaehler),5),,) [line A)]
1.
$put() and $puts() cannot be used as an argument within Mp3tag functions.
You have to recode the line, e. g.
$puts(zaehler,$if($eql($get(zaehler),5),0,$get(zaehler))
DD.20090217.1512.CET
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### Author:  [@goyschak](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/goyschak)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2009, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/counting-variable/7951/3 "2009-02-17T13:38:23Z")
> [@DetlevD](#):
>
> Two things:
> 1.
> Maybe a closing round bracket is too much.
> $if($eql($get(zaehler),5),,) [line A)]
The part between the isn't in the code. The ")" was a mistype. 😉
> [@DetlevD](#):
>
> 1.
>
> $put() and $puts() cannot be used as an argument within Mp3tag functions.
> You have to recode the line, e. g.
> $puts(zaehler,$if($eql($get(zaehler),5),0,$get(zaehler))
$puts(zaehler,$if($eql($get(zaehler),5),0,$get(zaehler))) 😉
Thank you very much! That did the job!