# Conditionally skip code routine based on block
**URL:** https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/conditionally-skip-code-routine-based-on-block/31108
**Category:** Coding
**Created:** [September 26, 2022, 10:44pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/conditionally-skip-code-routine-based-on-block/31108 "2022-09-26T22:44:48Z")
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### Author:  [@cjb10](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/cjb10)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2022, 10:44pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/conditionally-skip-code-routine-based-on-block/31108/1 "2022-09-26T22:44:48Z")
I have two routines that each contain their own code component:
During my welcome screen, I create a variable ‘Block’ which is determined by generating a random number:
What I am trying to do is only run one of the code routines (‘negCode’ or ‘posCode’) conditionally based on which group is assigned at the beginning of the experiment:
I’ve tried using ‘continueRoutine = False’ to conditionally run one of the two, in both Begin Routine and Each Frame, but that doesn’t do anything.
Hoping someone has a suggestion for a possible solution. Please let me know if you need more information.
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### Author:  [@ajus](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/ajus)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2022, 7:20am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/conditionally-skip-code-routine-based-on-block/31108/2 "2022-09-27T07:20:09Z")
Is it important to you experiment that both of these code components are in their own routine? If not, you could simply copy-paste the code of these components into the if-statement itself.
Otherwise you could preface both code components in their separate routines with an if-statement.
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### Author:  [@cjb10](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/cjb10)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/conditionally-skip-code-routine-based-on-block/31108/3 "2022-09-27T14:30:50Z")
That worked perfectly, thank you!