BOTH SAEM not working in loops about lci HOT 2 CLOSED

I just checked on this and it is not an issue with lci but rather an odd aspect of the LOLCODE language. Regarding comparisons, the 1.2 spec says:

Comparisons are performed as integer math in the presence of two NUMBRs, but if either of the expressions are NUMBARs, then floating point math takes over. Otherwise, there is no automatic casting in the equality, so BOTH SAEM “3” AN 3 is FAIL."

Since GIMMEH stores the user input as a YARN, the BOTH SAEM in your inner loop is basically getting evaluated as,

BOTH SAEM <YARN> AN <NUMBR>

which will always evaluate to FAIL. That is why it is printing out "0".

You can get the behavior you want by doing something like:

GIMMEH NBB
NBB IS NOW A NUMBR

Hope this helps. I am going to close this issue as it is an issue with the LOLCODE language and not lci.

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Oh, thanks :D

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