How to get the elements out of a for loop simultaneously during the loop execution

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Hi, 
I am student. I would like to know how to get the counter values outside the For loop parallely while the loop runs rather that getting the finally value outside the For loop. Looking forward for answers.
Thanks,
Athira
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Answer 1

You could use a notifier (since it is a single value) or a reference (with a property node) to a control that gets the value elsewhere in another VI.
If it is within the same VI, you could use a property node (right click > create > property node > value) from the control within the same VI located outside the loop.
If you promiss NOT to abuse the use of Local Variables, you could use that to only write from ONE location within the For Loop to a control outside the loop, similar to the property node mentionned earlier.  (Of course, I will be struct by lightening for mentionning that and scolded by other LabVIEW coders for having a change of heart on the use of Locals....  Shivers are already crawling up my spine).
You could use a queue, but that might be an overkill, unless:  the count is generated faster than it is being read elsewhere...
As crossrulz mentionned, can you describe what you will be doing with the count?  Because synchronizing data (fresh / stale / etc) is very important within LabVIEW as it executes based on dataflow rather than a sequential order.
Hope this helps. 
EDIT: 
You have not fully provided the answer.  We figured that much of your code from your description, but what is reading the value of the count?  Is it in a separate loop?  If not, it may only deal with the first value, which is likely 0.  The proper advice depends on how you process the received data (count).