Any ideas why this "if" statement is not working?

Question

I have this code inside a click command. The first part works, will change variable to 5. But if variable = 5 animation does not play: 
if (position != "5"){
                              sym.setVariable("position", "5");
                              var position = sym.getVariable("position");
                                        sym.$("Text3").html(""+position);
else if(position==5)
sym.play("animation")
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi there, can you put a console log before the if statement to confirm that you have a valid value for the "position" variable, at that click scope?
console.log('position = '+position);
Run it in your browser and open the JS console to check the log output of the above test.