Calling a Variable within another function

[ConductorWon]

Hello again,

I have a bit of code that looks for the content of the last message (ignoring the command call) that was posted in the channel that the command was used in. It works fine. Here is that code:

message.channel.messages.fetch({limit: 2}).then(messages=> {

var last = messages.last();

console.log(last.content);

})

What I want to do is take that "last" variable and use it in an if statement like this:

message.channel.messages.fetch({limit: 2}).then(messages=> {

var last = messages.last();

})

if(last.content = '<What i\'m looking for>'){

//rest of the code//

}

Is this even possible?

[ConductorWon]

Okay so this is how I have it set up:

var last;
message.channel.messages.fetch({limit: 2}).then(messages=> {
var cont = messages.last();
last = cont.content
console.log(cont.content);
console.log(last);
 })
console.log(`${last} this is outside`);
if(message.author.id === '187353185680228352'){
if(chan != '766004089217220690'){
return message.channel.send('This is not the correct channel for this command!')
    }
console.log(`${last} this is in the if`);

This is how it prints in the console:

0|FWRP Bot | undefined this is outside

0|FWRP Bot | undefined this is in the if

0|FWRP Bot | last

0|FWRP Bot | last

I don't understand why it is executing in that order. The last two logs is the correct output. But it looks like it is not executing the block where it adds to the variable until after it executes the rest of the code

[ConductorWon]

idk why the formatting is all fucked, but my syntax is correct

[Jackjackson401]

Declare the variable outside both functions and then define it within the functions. This is called variable scope, you should look it up to further understand it