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Nested For Next loops not working

Nested For Next loops not working

Nested For Next loops not working

(OP)
Here is the code as entered into my MACRO. When I Run the macro the For q = loop will not repeat. The For p = loop will cycle as many times as required, the last 3 cell inputs verify the values of q, p and the cell value in D14 of "Price list". Can anyone spot a flaw in the logic of my MACRO or is it impossible to nest for next loops.

Any help is appreciated.
 
 
    Dim q As Long
    Dim p As Long
    Dim t As Long
        For q = 1 To Worksheets("Price list").Range("d14")
            For p = 1 To Worksheets("price list").Range("Cutlist_elements")(1, q)
            t = t + 1
            Cells(t + 3, 1) = "input data"
            Cells(t + 3, 2) = "input data"
            Cells(t + 3, 4) = "input data"
            Cells(t + 3, 6) = "input data"
            Cells(t + 3, 9) = "input data"
            Cells(t + 3, 10) = q  {confirmation for debugging}
            Cells(t + 3, 11) = p  {confirmation for debugging}
            Cells(t + 3, 12) = Worksheets("price list").Range("d14")  {confirmation for debugging}
            Next p
        Next q
End Sub

RE: Nested For Next loops not working

what does that 1,q do?

Cheers

Greg Locock

RE: Nested For Next loops not working

Greg,
The (1,q) is similar to the Offset method, but with the difference that it is a relative reference: (1,q) refers to the same row and the q-th column. So it is equal to .Offset(0,q-1)

bpeirson,
I got your code to work without modifications. The error I made when setting up the spreadsheet is that the range "cutlist_elements" must be in a horizontal range (I first set it up in a column).
The other thing that happens with your code is that you'll quickly overwrite range [D14], dependent on the value of q and the values in  Cutlist_elements.
Remember that the (1,q) notation, as well as the Cells(t+3,1) etc, is always (row, column).
So your code is ok, it seems.
The spreadsheet I made looks like:

Column   A    B    C    D    E
Row14            q =    3    
Row15
Row16    1    4    2    4    5

with the name Cutlist_elements defined as:
='Price list'!$A$16:$E$16

Cheers,
Joerd

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RE: Nested For Next loops not working

(OP)
Thanks Joerd.

For some reason I transposed the (1,q). Should be (q,1) for the configuration of my data.

Overwriting D14 will not be a problem because this macro does not write data to the Price list worksheet.

The loops work fine now but the information written to the cells is not what was expected. But that's a different problem.

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