Hi, whatever I seem to do, I can’t seem to be able to perform mathematical operations (or boolean operations, or any other kind) on data I put into a variable, when I get this data from LocalStorage. I can display the data fine, so I know it’s there, but when I try to use it in an if/do, or a math…

Hi, Operations on the value obtained from the LocalStorage must be performed in the “then do” part. Blocks with the “then do” part are asynchronous blocks.

[Bez%20n%C3%A1zvu1] [Bez%20n%C3%A1zvu] answer from actech in blocks :slight_smile:

Is there no way to assign the value obtained to a new variable and perform operations on that variable later on?

This can be done. But assign the value of the new variable to the inside of the function “do something”. Mobile programming differs from desktop programming in that it uses the concept of asynchronous programming. Look at the difference between the synchronous function call from asynchronous to b…

Here’s an example showing how: [image] How to nest gets from Local Storage? Questions about Thunkable You could just create variables and assign value to the variable before the second call. Something like: [28] Regards Rob

Hmmm… The problem is I don’t want to use this procedure to display text. I just want the procedure to go get the value from LocalStorage and put it in a (numerical) variable, then come back. See, I need to get a bunch of these values from different places, perform operations on them in different …

[image] RelapseDev: It seems like I’m missing something. Is the only way to do this really to nest the entire mathematical operation in the then do, every time?? That seems really inelegant, but maybe that’s the only solution here? You are right that it is inelegant! It’s hard to make asynch…

OK. So I guess there’s no way to do it. It’s super weird to me that we can get the contents of LocalStorage into a textbox for display, but not actually get them into a variable for performing math or logic on. No workaround at all?

[image] RelapseDev: OK. So I guess there’s no way to do it. It’s super weird to me that we can get the contents of LocalStorage into a textbox for display, but not actually get them into a variable for performing math or logic on. No workaround at all? The way to do it is to ensure that all…

OK, got it. I’ll try it this way. I’m just relieved that I’m not going crazy- thought I was missing something simple! Thanks for your help.

Mathematical operations on the contents of a variable I've created by looking up a LocalStorage key?

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shriram September 9, 2018, 6:17pm 6

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