Netscript Loops and Conditionals

Loops and Conditionals

Netscript loops and conditionals are the same as Javascript. However, the one caveat is that when declaring variables such as the iterator for traversing a loop, you should not use the 'var' or 'let' keyword. For reference, you can see the Javascript documentation for loops/conditionals here:

While loops

For loops

Conditionals (If/Else statements)

Here are some simple code examples that show the use of loops and conditionals in Netscript.

The following is a while loop that runs the hack() Netscript function ten times:

i = 0;
while (i < 10) {
    hack('foodnstuff');
    i = i + 1;
}

The following is a for loop that runs the hack() Netscript function ten times:

for (i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {
    hack("foodnstuff");
}

The following is a conditional that uses the getServerMoneyAvailable() Netscript function to check how much money exists on the 'foodnstuff' server. If there is more than $200,000 on the server, then the server will be hacked. Otherwise, the money available on the server will be grown using the grow() Netscript function:

if (getServerMoneyAvailable('foodnstuff') > 200000) {
    hack("foodnstuff");
} else {
    grow("foodnstuff");
}