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So can someone tell me why is the simple example below not work when I sub switch or lamp for in0 and P2 in the main code?
switch var bit
switch = in0
lamp var bit
lamp = out2

main:
if in0 then
low p2
else
high p2
endif
goto main

Since you defined switch and lamp as a bit variable, they will simply report what is in them or be set to what you set them to... For output things like lamp. That is easy. You should use the CON instead of defining them as variables...

But I don't think this works for input. There are some other hacks I have seen, using the LookUp command... Something like:



Obviously this does not make sense to do in a fixed case, but this can be useful, if the switch pin is passed to a subroutine...

Kurt

The reason your code doesn't work is because you are only reading the input pin once at the begining of your program. By the time your code gets to the if statement the stae of the pin may have change. What you want is to read the current state of the pin which is what you are doing when you usin IN0 directly in the if statement.

You can alias a pin variable so you have something more readable like this.



This makes switchval point to the same thing as in0.

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