Count++... Could I be neater.

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Hi,

I'm looking for some advice, still fairly new to this and trying to be as neat as possible with my coding.

I currently have a project with 4 RFID sensors. If the correct tag is on the correct sensor, when you push the submit button, it increases the count by 1 (using COUNT++;) and if all 4 have the correct tags then COUNT == numReaders; relay unlocks, 4 leds flash (one for each reader) and happy days,

If tags are in the wrong place but there is a tag for each reader, the number of correctly placed tags flash (because the count increases by 1 for every correctly placed tag.

If not every reader senses a tag, then I've got it so COUNT>numReaders and all the LEDs flash red. This is currently coded by COUNT++; COUNT++; COUNT++; COUNT++; COUNT++; to increase the count 5 for every reader that can't sense a tag. This is fine, but quite messy! I tried COUNT+5; instead but this doesn't work... is there a better way to write this to get the count to increase by 5 at a time?

Thanks

Timdr23

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count += 5;

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TheMemberFormerlyKnownAsAWOL:
count += 5;

this is simpler than the long version
count = count +5 ;

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If you show your code we may find a better solution.