[Solved]Variable declaration in conditional statement

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Hello everyone,

I am a beginner in groovy, I am trying to write a script that detects the type of the event that triggers it, I have two:

  • A channel trigger
  • An item state change

I want my script to create a string variable to be used later in each case.

I make this test script to just print out the string i create in the if statement but i get an error that this variable does not exist.

did I do something wrong in declaring the variable? is there a scope issue?

NOTE: if I move the logger.info(str) inside the conditional expression, everything works fine!

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Since you need this variable in “each case” after the if statement I’d declare it upfront (i.e. before the if statement).

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@opus Thank you! it worked

Cheers!