How to reach variable outside the ng-repeat scope

Question

Is possible to reach variable outside the ng-repeat scope?

jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/zcbhubrw/

Here is the code:

HTML

Answer 1

you can call a function while clicking the list inside ng-repeat like this

<a href="#" ng-click="setCount($index)">

and defining the function in controller

 $scope.setCount = function(index) {
    $scope.count = index;
} ;

and updating the count value when you click

Here is a working plunker with your code,

http://embed.plnkr.co/rAbanmAR2Chw3P501tDc/preview

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

You can create function in the controller to set the count or refer the parent scope from inside the ng-repeat

ng-click="$parent.count = $index"

using parent scope

using function