creating "counters" in LSL

Hi, I'm somewhat new to LSL; been scripting for around three months, and slowly adding functions and techniques to my repertoir With many things, there's probably several ways of doing this...

How does one make a counter; i.e. a variable that increases when an event is triggered? For example, it would start at variable=0, then a state or event would make it increase so that variable=1, and so on until when variable=5, something happens. Preferably I'd like to know of several ways of doing this

Well, global variable is probably your best bet. Then just have the increment in your event. Such as:

integer counter;

default
{
   state_entry()
   {
      counter = 0;
   }
   touch_start(integer num_touchers)
   {
      counter++;
      if(counter == 5)
      {
         llOwnerSay("mmmm yes...");
         counter = 0;
      }
   }
}

Many thanks Another basic tool that will be widely useful.