How to use "newpage" within loops

Question

' Ten pages are expected but there are only two ?
@startuml
!$i=0
 !while $i<10
    class $i
    !$i = $i + 1
    newpage
!endwhile
@enduml

Answer 1

Hello K.,

• What is your version?

FYI, I test locally with version 1.2024.8beta7 and all is good.

Here is the output of:

java -jar plantuml.jar -preproc myfile.puml

@startuml
    class 0
    newpage
    class 1
    newpage
    class 2
    newpage
    class 3
    newpage
    class 4
    newpage
    class 5
    newpage
    class 6
    newpage
    class 7
    newpage
    class 8
    newpage
    class 9
    newpage
@enduml

Regards,
Th.

Comments

Hello Th,
my version is also 1.2024.8 and your preprocessor test command gives me the same output as well.
But the same test in VisualStudioCode (with PlantUML version 1.2024.8) produces only 2 pages. It seems that the loop is not recognized.
And in Eclipse there is the same behaviour. There are only 2 pages instead of 10 pages.
No clue why the IDEs behaves like that?
Regards,
ksi

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Hi K.,

Thanks for your answer.

There is now an issue on the plugin side. 

Some plugins reinterpret preprocessor directives.... 

Regards,
Th.