Re: test for even or odd

Thanks for all your help, it worked like a charm! :D


On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:12:26 -0500, Ross, Douglas <DRoss@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I searched http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/ for "even or
> odd" and came up with a bunch of useful hints.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Douglas Ross
> Developer, HTML UI Framework
> Kronos
> E-mail: dross@xxxxxxxxxx
> www.kronos.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 5:47 PM
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> Subject:  test for even or odd
> 
> So I have come down to this, I am going to get a count of how many
> elements there are of a certain tag. How can I test if the number is
> even or odd? Stateing the obvious here but if it came back with 3 of
> the tag I would want a "this number is odd" returned (or 1 and 0 for
> even).
> 
> I already have my rows alternating in color, but there are two sets, I
> need to first check for directories and place them and then I check
> for files and place them. When I check for files I then check to see
> if there was a even or odd number of files telling me what color to
> start on!
> 
> Thanks!