Netscript 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");
}