Increment variable amount by 1 with each press of button

[badkarma5150]

Apologies for the simple question but have pounded my head against the wall trying to figure this very simple action out. Very new user here. I want to be able to increase the value of a variable each time I press a specific key. That's it.. in SQL I would reference the variable itself and simply add 1 (eg. Var = Var +1) but can't do that here it seems so how do I do this?

The following code will add 1 to the variable but won't keep adding higher from there... just keeps saying 1 which means the var gets reset each time I press the assigned key so something basic is eluding me.

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^j::
{

FileNumber := 0
FileNumber := ++FileNumber

MsgBox(FileNumber)


}

[mikeyww]

Welcome to this AutoHotkey forum!

What is eluding you? When you trigger a hotkey or other function, each statement in the function will execute (or according to flow rules & certain operators). Follow the script line by line to understand what it does.

Instead of resetting the value each time, just set it once. Static will do that.

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#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0
^j:: {
 Static FileNumber := 0
 FileNumber++
 MsgBox FileNumber
}

[badkarma5150]

Awesome! Thank you so much!