How do I tell Pine to show me the first high high[1] after a prior condition has been met?

Question

I've recently jumped into Pine having coded for the last few years in Thinkscript but I'm having some issues when trying to isolate the most recent occurrence of a condition then find a different condition only after that occurrence.

The yellow star in the screenshot is the most recent condition. Logically speaking, if the bar number is higher than the yellow star (10407), I want to find the very first occurrence when a high > high1.

In the past, I would just reference the bar number of the most recent condition that say if bar number > the bar number of the most recent condition, start counting the number of times the high > high1. Then I would reference the first count which would be the bar number I want.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've tried a number of things like counters, bars since, trying to reference bar numbers, etc but can't figure it out. Thanks in advance for any help possible!!!

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'''

indicator("BarNum Test", shorttitle = 'BN Test', overlay = true, max_bars_back = 1500)

//User Inputs
atrtimeFrame = input.timeframe("D", title="ATR Time Frame")

//HLOC for multi timeframes

[dOpen,dHigh,dLow,dTime] = request.security(syminfo.tickerid,"D", [open[0],high[0],low[0],time[0]])
[wOpen,wHigh,wLow,wTime] = request.security(syminfo.tickerid,"W", [open[0],high[0],low[0],time[0]])
[mOpen,mHigh,mLow,mTime] = request.security(syminfo.tickerid,"M", [open[0],high[0],low[0],time[0]])
[qOpen,qHigh,qLow,qTime] = request.security(syminfo.tickerid,"3M", [open[0],high[0],low[0],time[0]])
[yOpen,yHigh,yLow,yTime] = request.security(syminfo.tickerid,"12M", [open[0],high[0],low[0],time[0]])

//Strat Signals

dTwoDown = dHigh < dHigh[1] and dLow < dLow[1]

// Mag Hit
var dMagHitBearish = 0 
dMagHitBearish := dTwoDown and dLow[2] < dLow[1] and dLow < dLow[2]? 1:0 // low 2 bars ago is less than low of 1 bar ago (validates it wasnt a series of 2 downs and was a tto)

//ATR fo 20 periods

atr20 = request.security(syminfo.tickerid, atrtimeFrame, ta.atr(20))

closeOverQhigh = close > qHigh
closeTwiceATR = (atr20 * 2)
closeThriceATR = (atr20 * 3)
    
var c1arg1b = 0
c1arg1b := close > qOpen and close > (qOpen + closeTwiceATR) and dMagHitBearish ? 1 : 0
plotchar( c1arg1b,text = "TTO", location = location.belowbar, color=color.yellow)


var sig = 0
if close > qOpen and close > (qOpen + closeTwiceATR) and dMagHitBearish
    sig :=bar_index
    
label.new(sig, high, text = str.tostring(sig))
//label.new(bar_index, high, text = str.tostring(bar_index))

cond = close > qOpen and close > (qOpen + closeTwiceATR) and dMagHitBearish

var int count = na
if cond
    count := 0
else 
    count +=1
    
since_last = ta.barssince(cond)


cond2 = since_last > 0 and high > high[1]
var int count2 = na
if cond2
    count2 := 0
else 
    count2 +=1
    
since_last2 = ta.barssince(cond2)

label.new(bar_index, high, text = str.tostring(since_last))
plotshape(since_last2 ==0, style=shape.xcross)

'''

elod008 · Answer

Programatically, I am thinking about the following simple general solution for such cases:

...
var shouldCheckFirstOccurance = false

if conditionMet
    shouldCheckFirstOccurance := true

if shouldCheckFirstOccurance and occuranceCondition
    shouldCheckFirstOccurance := false // reset condition pass
    // do some logic on the first occurance

How do I tell Pine to show me the first high > high[1] after a prior condition has been met?

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